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refer to chromosomes. Diploid organisms have a full set of paired chromosomes, half a pair from each parent. Humans, for example, are diploid. Haploid refers to having just one set of chromosomes from one parent.
refers to type of sex determination among bees, ants, and wasps. Basically, females are produced from fertilized eggs, while males are produced from unfertilized eggs. Think of if a hen laid an unfertilized egg, and from that egg hatched a rooster.
No Diploid Boys Allowed refers to a shirt I own of a certainly haploid western honeybee(A. mellifera) drone wreathed in the aforementioned text.
Anyone vaguely aware of haplodiploidy would think I was just making a haha funny joke. Of course, there are no diploid boys because all diploid bees are female. Except for when they aren't.
I don't remember exactly why I came across the concept of the diploid drone, but I know it was through the works of the late Polish scientist Jerzy Woyke. Starting in the 1950s, Woyke published numerous papers on the mating habits of honeybees, going as far as to develop the process of artificial insemination of honeybee queens. It was this process that allowed him to breed a variety of "mutant bees."
Among these mutant bees were the diploid Drones. They appeared in the brood resulting from sibling mating. The eggs would hatch as normal but would disappear 6-9 hours later. Proposed theories included expulsion from the hive and simply nonviable larvae. Neither of which had any support. Eventually, it was observed that diploid Drone larvae were eaten alive by the hive’s Workers in their entirety.
When reared outside of the hive, the Drones were found to produce viable but limited semen. The produced sex cells are diploid, which if mated with a haploid oocyte(female sex cell), would result in triploid offspring. Drone gametes are produced via mitosis. This would retain the entire set of chromosomes, rather than half, as would be the case for the haploid Worker gametes produced via meiosis(chromosomal reduction). This is supported by other members of Hymenoptera that are much more tolerating of diploid Drones. Many produce sterile triploid offspring if they produce anything at all.
Woyke proposed a hypothetical “cannibalism substance” released by diploid Drone larvae as a form of Worker-assisted suicide, however, the claim has yet to be confirmed across multiple studies despite Woyke’s belief in that hypothesis until at least 2021. Instead, it is theorized that quantitative differences in the makeup of cuticular substances are what differentiates the pheromones of diploid and haploid Drones.
So the haha funny shirt is technically referring to cannibalistic infanticide, but like it's fine <3
refer to chromosomes. Diploid organisms have a full set of paired chromosomes, half a pair from each parent. Humans, for example, are diploid. Haploid refers to having just one set of chromosomes from one parent.
refers to type of sex determination among bees, ants, and wasps. Basically, females are produced from fertilized eggs, while males are produced from unfertilized eggs. Think of if a hen laid an unfertilized egg, and from that egg hatched a rooster.
No Diploid Boys Allowed refers to a shirt I own of a certainly haploid western honeybee(A. mellifera) drone wreathed in the aforementioned text.
Anyone vaguely aware of haplodiploidy would think I was just making a haha funny joke. Of course, there are no diploid boys because all diploid bees are female. Except for when they aren't.
I don't remember exactly why I came across the concept of the diploid drone, but I know it was through the works of the late Polish scientist Jerzy Woyke. Starting in the 1950s, Woyke published numerous papers on the mating habits of honeybees, going as far as to develop the process of artificial insemination of honeybee queens. It was this process that allowed him to breed a variety of "mutant bees."
Among these mutant bees were the diploid Drones. They appeared in the brood resulting from sibling mating. The eggs would hatch as normal but would disappear 6-9 hours later. Proposed theories included expulsion from the hive and simply nonviable larvae. Neither of which had any support. Eventually, it was observed that diploid Drone larvae were eaten alive by the hive’s Workers in their entirety.
When reared outside of the hive, the Drones were found to produce viable but limited semen. The produced sex cells are diploid, which if mated with a haploid oocyte(female sex cell), would result in triploid offspring. Drone gametes are produced via mitosis. This would retain the entire set of chromosomes, rather than half, as would be the case for the haploid Worker gametes produced via meiosis(chromosomal reduction). This is supported by other members of Hymenoptera that are much more tolerating of diploid Drones. Many produce sterile triploid offspring if they produce anything at all.
Woyke proposed a hypothetical “cannibalism substance” released by diploid Drone larvae as a form of Worker-assisted suicide, however, the claim has yet to be confirmed across multiple studies despite Woyke’s belief in that hypothesis until at least 2021. Instead, it is theorized that quantitative differences in the makeup of cuticular substances are what differentiates the pheromones of diploid and haploid Drones.
So the haha funny shirt is technically referring to cannibalistic infanticide, but like it's fine <3
