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Genetic diversity in honeybee colonies boosts productivity

Science Centric (20 Jul 2007 10:09 GMT) - Why do queen honeybees mate with dozens of males? Does their extreme promiscuity, perhaps, serve a purpose? An answer to this age-old mystery is proposed in the current issue of Science magazine by Cornell scientists: Promiscuous queens, they suggest, produce genetically diverse colonies that are far more productive and hardy than genetically uniform colonies produced by monogamous queens... [full story]

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