In a population of the social bee Melipona subnitida of about 200 hives, from Mossoró, Northeastern Brazil, 54 hives were sampled and studied electrophoretically as far as the alleles Est-3S, Est-3M and Est-3F were concerned. Males are produced by eggs laid by workers (no more than 4 in the same day) and by the queen. It was estimated that 61.2% of the drones are sons of the queen and 38.8% are sons of the workers. With these values the effective number (Ne) was estimated in 395.80 which is 24% higher than in a model in which all males are sons of the queen. © 1976 Martinus Nijhioff Publishers.
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Contel, E. P. B., & Kerr, W. E. (1976). Origin of males in Melipona subnitida estimated from data of an isozymic polymorphic system. Genetica, 46(3), 271–277. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00055470
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