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Feminizer and doublesex knock-outs cause honey bees to switch sexes
Honey bees are experts at refuting societal norms. Their matriarchal hives are headed by queens, backed by an all-female workforce, and males die soon after copulation. But the biochemical basis of how these distinct castes and sexes (queens, workers, and drones) arise is poorly understood, partly d...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6522059/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31059510 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000256 |