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Longevity extension of worker honey bees (Apis mellifera) by royal jelly: optimal dose and active ingredient

In the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera, queens and workers have different longevity although they share the same genome. Queens consume royal jelly (RJ) as the main food throughout their life, including as adults, but workers only eat worker jelly when they are larvae less than 3 days old. In orde...

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Autores principales: Yang, Wenchao, Tian, Yuanyuan, Han, Mingfeng, Miao, Xiaoqing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5372980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28367370
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3118