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The relationship between haplodiploid sex determination and the evolution of eusociality in wasps, bees, and ants.
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Eusociality is the social group of animals, which contains nonreproductive individuals and it occurs in insect groups or Hymenoptera that includes bees, ants, and wasps. Nonreproductive individuals are working members of the eusocial group where only a few reproductive female and male are necessary. Example of eusociality is honey bee hives with many working females (sterile) and one queen honey bee.
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