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Lessons from a queen’s lost offspring—Theodor Boveri on honeybee gynanders and other genetic mosaics

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When it came to making his audience see a point, Theodor Boveri proved himself a master in the formulation of enlightening parallels. Take this one for instance, forging a link between the present Essay and the one before.

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Sander, K. (1997). Lessons from a queen’s lost offspring—Theodor Boveri on honeybee gynanders and other genetic mosaics. In: Landmarks in Developmental Biology 1883–1924. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60492-8_17

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