Intraspecific genetic variation and haplodiploidy, eusociality, and polygyny in the Hymenoptera.

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Mean heterozygosity values for 101 insect species were analyzed to test a series of hypotheses concerning the patterning of genetic variability within the Hymenoptera. The following conclusions are drawn. 1) 50 hymenopteran species have significantly lower H values than do 51 diplodiploid non-hymenopterans. 2) Among Hymenoptera, primitively eusocial species are less genetically variable than either solitary or advanced eusocial species. The latter 2 groups do not differ. 3) Among ants studied, polygynous and monogynous species have similar levels of genetic variability.-from Author

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Berkelhamer, R. C. (1983). Intraspecific genetic variation and haplodiploidy, eusociality, and polygyny in the Hymenoptera. Evolution, 37(3), 540–545. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1983.tb05570.x

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