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- Thelytoky (from the Gr**** θῆλυς thēlys "female" and τόκος tókos "birth") is a type of parthenogenesis and is the absence of mating and subsequent production...
- haploid, male eggs. Not all workers are capable of thelytoky – only those expressing the thelytoky phenotype, which is controlled by a recessive allele...
- fertilization. Thelytoky is a particular form of parthenogenesis in which female embryos are created (without fertilisation). The form of thelytoky in hymenopterans...
- "Fertile diploid males in the ant Cataglyphis cursor: a potential cost of thelytoky?". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 67 (12): 1983–1993. Bibcode:2013BEcoS...
- case of reproduction is thelytoky: the reproduction of female workers or queens by laying worker bees by parthenogenesis. Thelytoky occurs in the Cape bee...
- which growth and development of embryos occur without fertilisation. Thelytoky is a particular form of parthenogenesis in which the development of a...
- parthenogenesis in which females develop from unfertilized eggs is known as thelytoky; when both males and females develop from unfertilized eggs, the term...
- The production of female offspring by parthenogenesis is referred to as thelytoky (e.g., aphids) while the production of males by parthenogenesis is referred...
- develop from the eggs of laying worker bees (with some exceptions, see thelytoky). A beehive cannot survive with only a laying worker bee. Even in a normal...
- diploid (and therefore female) fertile offspring in a process called thelytoky, in which the second set of chromosomes comes not from sperm, but from...