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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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Autores principales: McAfee, Alison, Pettis, Jeffery S., Tarpy, David R., Foster, Leonard J.
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/PMC6522059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31059510
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000256