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Born to be bee, fed to be worker? The caste system of a primitively eusocial insect

INTRODUCTION: Primitively eusocial halictid bees are excellent systems to study the origin of eusociality, because all individuals have retained the ancestral ability to breed independently. In the sweat bee Halictus scabiosae, foundresses overwinter, establish nests and rear a first brood by mass-p...

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Autores principales: Brand, Nayuta, Chapuisat, Michel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23216648
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-9-35