The Sex Determination Gene Shows No Founder Effect in the Giant Honey Bee, Apis dorsata

• Zhi Yong Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhi Yong Liu, Zi Long Wang

  Affiliations Honeybee Research Institute, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China, Experimental Animal Center, Institute of Occupational Disease Prevention, Nanchang, China

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• Zi Long Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhi Yong Liu, Zi Long Wang

  Affiliation Honeybee Research Institute, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China

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• Wei Yu Yan,

  Affiliation Honeybee Research Institute, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China

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• Xiao Bo Wu,

  Affiliation Honeybee Research Institute, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China

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• Zhi Jiang Zeng ,

  * E-mail: bees1965@sina.com; bees@msu.edu (ZYH)

  Affiliation Honeybee Research Institute, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China

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• Zachary Y. Huang

  * E-mail: bees1965@sina.com; bees@msu.edu (ZYH)

  Affiliations Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

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