For example, in Apis, about 1 percent of the eggs laid by secondary queens may be female.
For example, in Apis (bees), about 1 percent of the eggs laid by secondary queens may be female.
Finally, late in the queen's life, she lays several eggs that become secondary queens to replace her--and those queens start mating with the king to produce more workers, soldiers, and alates.
By creating these genetic representatives that are untainted by the king, the queen boosts her reproductive output, because there are dozens to well over 100 secondary queens doing her job.
Further analysis showed that the secondary queens lacked any genetic input from the king, meaning that the primary queen produced them on her own, the researchers report in today's issue of Science.
In arrhenotoky, haploid males are produced from unfertilized eggs laid by mated (impregnated) females or by so-called secondary, or supplementary, queens, which have not been impregnated.
In arrhenotoky, males are produced from unfertilized eggs laid by mated (impregnated) females or by so-called secondary, or supplementary, queens, which have not been impregnated.
The police went to what they called a "Kingston post-secondary institution"—only Queen's University, Lawrence College, and Royal Military College of Canada are in the town and searched for the student.
The entire colony may exist for many years in species that replace the primary king and queen with secondary reproductives.
Michael was born in Georgetown, in what was then British Guiana, and educated at Queen's college secondary school (1952-56) – also the alma mater of ER Braithwaite, author of To Sir, With Love, the Test cricketer Roger Harper and the politician and writer Trevor Phillips.
