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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...
Autores principales: | McAfee, Alison, Pettis, Jeffery S., Tarpy, David R., Foster, Leonard J. |
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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 |
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