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Positive selection in cytochrome P450 genes is associated with gonad phenotype and mating strategy in social bees

The honey bee, Apis mellifera differs from all other social bees in its gonad phenotype and mating strategy. Honey bee queens and drones have tremendously enlarged gonads, and virgin queens mate with several males. In contrast, in all the other bees, the male and female gonads are small, and the fem...

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Autores principales: Lago, Denyse Cavalcante, Nora, Luísa Czamanski, Hasselmann, Martin, Hartfelder, Klaus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10090045/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37041178
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32898-6