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Chemical communication is not sufficient to explain reproductive inhibition in the bumblebee Bombus impatiens
Reproductive division of labour is a hallmark of eusociality, but disentangling the underlying proximate mechanisms can be challenging. In bumblebees, workers isolated from the queen can activate their ovaries and lay haploid, male eggs. We investigated if volatile, contact, visual or behavioural cu...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5099002/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27853577 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160576 |