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Division of labor in honeybees: form, function, and proximate mechanisms
Honeybees exhibit two patterns of organization of work. In the spring and summer, division of labor is used to maximize growth rate and resource accumulation, while during the winter, worker survivorship through the poor season is paramount, and bees become generalists. This work proposes new organi...
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Springer-Verlag
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2810364/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20119486 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-009-0874-7 |