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Partial ovary development is widespread in honey bees and comparable to other eusocial bees and wasps

Honey bee workers have few opportunities for direct reproduction because their ovary development is chemically suppressed by queens and worker-laid eggs are destroyed by workers. While workers with fully developed ovaries are rare in honey bee colonies, we show that partial ovary development is comm...

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Autores principales: Smith, Michael L., Mattila, Heather R., Reeve, H. Kern
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Landes Bioscience 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3829896/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24255737
http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/cib.25004