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Reproductive Potential Impacts Body Maintenance Parameters and Global DNA Methylation in Honeybee Workers (Apis mellifera L.)

SIMPLE SUMMARY: The queens and sterile workers arise from genetically identical eggs but as imagoes, they differ in their life span, DNA methylation, and their functions. In the absence of the queen, the larvae develop into rebels, i.e., workers with increased reproductive potential. We assumed that...

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Autores principales: Paleolog, Jerzy, Kuszewska, Karolina, Woyciechowski, Michał, Strachecka, Aneta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8617817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34821822
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects12111021