High-Quality Queens Produce High-Quality Offspring Queens

Honey bees, rather than rear queens with eggs and larvae from worker cells, prefer to rear new queens with eggs form queen cells, if available. This may be a result of long-term evolutionary process for honey bee colonies. However, the exact mechanism of this phenomenon is unclear. In this study, qu...

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Main Authors: Longtao Yu, Xinxin Shi, Xujiang He, Zhijiang Zeng, Weiyu Yan, Xiaobo Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-05-01
Series:Insects
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/13/5/486