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Ovary activation does not correlate with pollen and nectar foraging specialization in the bumblebee Bombus impatiens

Social insect foragers may specialize on certain resource types. Specialization on pollen or nectar among honeybee foragers is hypothesized to result from associations between reproductive physiology and sensory tuning that evolved in ancestral solitary bees (the Reproductive Ground-Plan Hypothesis;...

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Autores principales: Simons, Meagan A., Smith, Adam R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5824676/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29479503
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4415