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Single bee is making an immortal clone army thanks to a genetic fluke – Livescience.com
The worker bees’ ability to clone themselves can be as destabilizing to the hives of other species as it is to their own.
When hives of the African lowland honeybee
(Apis mellifera scutella) collapse, they do so because of an invisible inner threat: the growing, immortal clone
army of a rival bee subspecies.
That army is possible because the female workers of the rival subspecies…
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