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The sensitivity of a honeybee colony to worker mortality depends on season and resource availability

BACKGROUND: Honeybees have extraordinary phenotypic plasticity in their senescence rate, making them a fascinating model system for the evolution of aging. Seasonal variation in senescence and extrinsic mortality results in a tenfold increase in worker life expectancy in winter as compared to summer...

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Autores principales: Lemanski, Natalie J., Bansal, Siddhant, Fefferman, Nina H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7596992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33121428
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-020-01706-4