Queen signals in a stingless bee: suppression of worker ovary activation and spatial distribution of active compounds

In most species of social insect the queen signals her presence to her workers via pheromones. Worker responses to queen pheromones include retinue formation around the queen, inhibition of queen cell production and suppression of worker ovary activation. Here we show that the queen signal of the Br...

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Autores principales: Nunes, Túlio M., Mateus, Sidnei, Favaris, Arodi P., Amaral, Mônica F. Z. J., von Zuben, Lucas G., Clososki, Giuliano C., Bento, José M. S., Oldroyd, Benjamin P., Silva, Ricardo, Zucchi, Ronaldo, Silva, Denise B., Lopes, Norberto P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4264003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25502598
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep07449

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