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The cost of promiscuity: sexual transmission of Nosema microsporidian parasites in polyandrous honey bees

Multiple mating (and insemination) by females with different males, polyandry, is widespread across animals, due to material and/or genetic benefits for females. It reaches particularly high levels in some social insects, in which queens can produce significantly fitter colonies by being polyandrous...

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Autores principales: Roberts, K. E., Evison, S. E. F., Baer, B., Hughes, W. O. H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4485198/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26123939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep10982