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SUBMITTER: Cameron SA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC47423 | biostudies-other | 1993 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19930901 18
The remarkably high level of colony organization found in the honey bees and stingless bees (family Apidae) is extremely rare among animals. Yet there is controversy over whether these two groups independently evolved advanced eusocial behavior or inherited it from a common ancestor. Phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequence information from the mitochondrial genome (large-subunit ribosomal RNA gene) of representative apid bees suggest that advanced eusocial behavior evolved twice independently with ...[more]