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A genetic switch for worker nutrition-mediated traits in honeybees

Highly social insects are characterized by caste dimorphism, with distinct size differences of reproductive organs between fertile queens and the more or less sterile workers. An abundance of nutrition or instruction via diet-specific compounds has been proposed as explanations for the nutrition-dri...

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Autores principales: Roth, Annika, Vleurinck, Christina, Netschitailo, Oksana, Bauer, Vivien, Otte, Marianne, Kaftanoglu, Osman, Page, Robert E., Beye, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6428258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30897091
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000171