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Effects of Selection for Honey Bee Worker Reproduction on Foraging Traits

The “reproductive ground plan” hypothesis (RGPH) proposes that reproductive division of labour in social insects had its antecedents in the ancient gene regulatory networks that evolved to regulate the foraging and reproductive phases of their solitary ancestors. Thus, queens express traits that are...

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Autores principales: Oldroyd, Benjamin P, Beekman, Madeleine
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2270312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18318602
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060056