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Cryptic “royal” subfamilies in honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies

During emergency queen rearing, worker honey bees (Apis mellifera) select several otherwise worker-destined larvae to instead rear as candidates to replace their dead or failing queen. This choice is crucial as the queen is the sole reproductive in the colony and her quality is essential to its succ...

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Autores principales: Withrow, James M., Tarpy, David R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6040692/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29995879
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199124