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A scientific note on diploid males in a reproductive event of a eusocial bee

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Acknowledgments

We thank the Coordenação de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES-PROAP 2010) for financial support and scholarship through the Graduate Program in Zoology of the Departamento de Zoologia–IBUSP; Ademilson Espencer Egea Soares for kindly providing the inventory data of Meliponini nests at the campus da Universidade de São Paulo/Ribeirão Preto/Brazil; Flávio de Oliveira Francisco and Leandro Rodrigues Santiago for helping with molecular techniques and analysis. Authors gratefully acknowledge Rodolfo Jaffé for his critical reading of the manuscript and suggestions

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  1. Departamento de Zoologia, IB, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 321, Travessa 14, 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Charles Fernando dos Santos

  2. Laboratório de Abelhas, Departamento de Ecologia, IB, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 321, Travessa 14, 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Charles Fernando dos Santos & Vera Lucia Imperatriz-Fonseca

  3. Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária–Amazônia Oriental, travessa Dr. Enéas Pinheiro, s/n, 66095-105, Belém, PA, Brazil

    Cristiano Menezes

  4. Universidade Federal Rural do Semiárido, Km 47-BR110, Mossoró, RN, Brazil

    Vera Lucia Imperatriz-Fonseca

  5. Departamento de Genética e Biologia Reprodutiva, IB, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 277, 05508-090, São Paulo, Brazil

    Maria Cristina Arias

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Note scientifique: mâles diploïdes lors des rassemblements de mâles de l’abeille sans aiguillon, Tetragonisca angustula (Apidae: Meliponini)

Eine wissenschaftliche Notiz über diploide Männchen in der Reproduktionsbiologie einer eusozialen Biene

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dos Santos, C.F., Menezes, C., Imperatriz-Fonseca, V.L. et al. A scientific note on diploid males in a reproductive event of a eusocial bee. Apidologie 44, 519–521 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-013-0202-0

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