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IN the Hymenoptera, the great majority of species reproduce by arrenotoky, fertilized eggs giving rise to females and unfertilized eggs to males, but some species reproduce by thelytokous parthenogenesis, the females arising from unfertilized eggs. In thelytokous species, it is not unusual for occasional males to occur.
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WILSON, F., WOOLCOCK, L. Environmental Determination of Sex in a Parthenogenetic Parasite. Nature 186, 99–100 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186099a0
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