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There are interesting parallels between, on the one hand, the chimerism seen in armored scale insects and, on the other hand, the eusociality (true sociality) seen in ants and honeybees.
This temptation increases when we consider another case from the old cytogenetics literature of apparent histological eusociality, though not of true permanent chimerism.
This may explain why obligate sibling chimerism never evolves (except perhaps in the very limited case of blood cells between sibling marmosets).
Why should scale insects, of all creatures, have obligate chimerism involving activated polar bodies?
Some species of monkeys (marmosets) typically have chimeric blood, from having shared a blood supply with a twin in utero (Haig 1999), and rare cases of accidental chimerism are known from many animal species (Tremblay and Caltagirone 1973; van Dijk et al.