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Sex and Caste-Specific Variation in Compound Eye Morphology of Five Honeybee Species

Ranging from dwarfs to giants, the species of honeybees show remarkable differences in body size that have placed evolutionary constrains on the size of sensory organs and the brain. Colonies comprise three adult phenotypes, drones and two female castes, the reproductive queen and sterile workers. T...

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Autores principales: Streinzer, Martin, Brockmann, Axel, Nagaraja, Narayanappa, Spaethe, Johannes
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3584085/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23460896
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0057702