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. 2020 Jun 8;10(13):6246–6256. doi: 10.1002/ece3.6357

TABLE 3.

Representation of the queen by queen cell and drone egg tissues

Tissue comparison Pairs of samples Different calls (% of all loci) ± SE Queen flight muscle call rate ± SE Call rate of the alternative tissue ± SE
Queen versus queen cell 19 0.09 ± 0.20 99.42 ± 0.60 99.31 ± 0.61
Queen versus 120 eggs 7 0.14 ± 0.12 98.72 ± 1.07 98.71 ± 0.67
Queen versus 30 eggs 7 0.17 ± 0.14 98.52 ± 1.02 98.06 ± 0.52

All queen genotypes were generated using DNA from flight muscle tissue in these comparisons.