Sex determination and sex ratio control in honeybees.
Author of the article:ZENG Zhi-Jiang,RAO Bo,XIE Xian-Bin,YAN Wei-Yu
Author's Workplace:(College of Animal Sciences and Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045,China)
Key Words:honeybee; sex; sex ratio
Abstract:The 4 hypotheses on honeybee sex determination: the complementary allele hypothesis, gene balance hypothesis, synthetic hypothesis, sex gene quantity hypothesis are described in this paper. The authors also discuss in detail the question of who (queen or