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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
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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 |