Meiosis drone honey bee

[alldigging]

Thanks for that - I actually didn't think of diploid drones! I presume their offspring would suffer from trisomy - I would have expected them to be non-viable or, at least, not really fit for purpose which is, I suppose, why they're removed.

The link does say they can be reared in the lab. Would breeding from them would cause triploidy bees?

 

[thenovice]

I thought that since a drone was haploid, there could be no meiosis, i.e. sperm production was entirely mitotic with identical copies. Have I misunderstood something?

how i understood it is that it looks a bit like mitosis in the sense that in Meiosis I is aborted and dna is only duplicated, not separated in anaphase I and Telophase I. you start Meiosis II then with 1 nucleus instead of 2.

 

[Juhani Lundén]

Hi Juhani can I ask you to scan this page again to PDF for the dropbox. It is at an angle and some of the text is missing

Source: Queen Rearing and Bee Breeding by Harry.H.Laidlaw Jr. and Robert E. Page Jr.



https://www.dropbox.com/s/9l3xgsrz4c6zvsv/Meiosis of a drone bee.pdf?dl=0

I had to make a copy and cut the edges straight with scissors.

 

[Brian Bush]

Source: Queen Rearing and Bee Breeding by Harry.H.Laidlaw Jr. and Robert E. Page Jr.



https://www.dropbox.com/s/9l3xgsrz4c6zvsv/Meiosis of a drone bee.pdf?dl=0

I had to make a copy and cut the edges straight with scissors.

Many thanks Juhani. I assume you are a fairly new member. A very warm welcome to the forum.