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Queens become workers: pesticides alter caste differentiation in bees

Bees are important for the world biodiversity and economy because they provide key pollination services in forests and crops. However, pesticide use in crops has adversely affected (decreased) queen production because of increased mortality among larvae. Here, we demonstrated that in vitro-reared qu...

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Autores principales: dos Santos, Charles F., Acosta, André L., Dorneles, Andressa L., dos Santos, Patrick D. S., Blochtein, Betina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4987680/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27530246
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep31605