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- Title
Effects of Selection for Honey Bee Worker Reproduction on Foraging Traits.
- Authors
Oldroyd, Benjamin P; Beekman, Madeleine
- Abstract
A new study lends support to the model of social insect evolution, in which a gene regulatory network linked to the reproductive and foraging phases of ancestral solitary insects gave rise to queen and worker castes. But the study challenges the notion that genes related to reproduction also regulate the foraging behavior of workers.
- Subjects
HONEYBEES; INSECT reproduction; INSECT behavior; INSECT societies; BEES; REPRODUCTION
- Publication
PLoS Biology, 2008, Vol 6, Issue 3, pe56
- ISSN
1544-9173
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pbio.0060056