Cytological evidence for triploid males and females in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris

Chromosome Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 215-223

  Ayabe, Tokiyo ^a,c   Hoshiba, Hidehiro ^b   Ono, Masato ^a  

^a TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DAITO BUNKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MEIJI PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombus terrestris; CSD; Diploid male; Sib mating; Triploid

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEE; BODY SIZE; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; BUMBLEBEE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT GENETICS; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; TRIPLOIDY;

ANIMALS; BEES; CHROMOSOMES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; POLYPLOIDY; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 1942537890     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:CHRO.0000021880.83639.4b     Document Type: Article

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