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Worker-Born Males Are Smaller but Have Similar Reproduction Ability to Queen-Born Males in Bumblebees
SIMPLE SUMMARY: In bumblebee colonies, the authority of male reproduction is not entirely controlled by the queen. Workers who lose mating ability could also produce haploidy males. The conflict over the reproduction of males in bumblebee colonies becomes more evident compared to the higher eusocial...
Autores principales: | Zhao, Huiyue, Liu, Yanjie, Zhang, Hong, Breeze, Tom D., An, Jiandong |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8622041/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34821809 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects12111008 |
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