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Trade-offs between sperm viability and immune protein expression in honey bee queens (Apis mellifera)

Queens of many social hymenoptera keep sperm alive within their specialized storage organ, the spermatheca, for years, defying the typical trade-off between lifespan and reproduction. However, whether honey bee (Apis mellifera) queens experience a trade-off between reproduction and immunity is unkno...

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Autores principales: McAfee, Alison, Chapman, Abigail, Pettis, Jeffery S., Foster, Leonard J., Tarpy, David R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7794525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33420325
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01586-w