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- Title
Role of hydrocarbons in egg recognition in the honeybee.
- Authors
Martin, Stephen J.; Jones, Graeme R.; Châline, Nicolas; Ratnieks, Francis L. W.
- Abstract
Despite worker-laid and queen-laid honeybee eggs having significantly different hydrocarbon profiles, bioassays and chemical supplementation studies show that changing the hydrocarbon profile does not affect egg identity. Furthermore, full-sized eggs that are tested just before being laid or just after being laid have similar hydrocarbon patterns but are treated differently in egg-discrimination bioassays with only the laid eggs surviving. This suggests that hydrocarbons play no role in the egg-recognition system in honeybees.
- Subjects
EGG processing; HONEYBEES; HYDROCARBONS; ORGANIC compounds; APIS (Insects); ENTOMOLOGY
- Publication
Physiological Entomology, 2004, Vol 29, Issue 4, p395
- ISSN
0307-6962
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.0307-6962.2004.00404.x