Abstract
Eusocial bees include the Apini and Meliponini tribes and offer an unique opportunity to unravel the genomic aspects of phenotypic plasticity as a diploid egg (one genome) is capable of originating a worker or a queen (two phenotypes), females with very different morphologies. In the stingless bee species (Meliponini) Frieseomelitta varia, monandric queens have an exclusively reproductive…