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The queen’s gut refines with age: longevity phenotypes in a social insect model
BACKGROUND: In social insects, identical genotypes can show extreme lifespan variation providing a unique perspective on age-associated microbial succession. In honey bees, short- and long-lived host phenotypes are polarized by a suite of age-associated factors including hormones, nutrition, immune...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6006926/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29914555 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40168-018-0489-1 |