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Honey bee maternal effects improve worker performance and reproductive ability in offspring

Maternal effects are an evolutionary strategy used to improve offspring quality. In an example of maternal effects in honey bees (Apis mellifera), mother queens produce larger eggs in queen cells than in worker cells in order to breed better daughter queens. In our current study, morphological index...

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Autores principales: Yu, Longtao, He, Xujiang, Shi, Xinxin, Yan, Weiyu, Wu, Xiaobo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10167042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37181751
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2023.1156923