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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2022-05-01
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Series: | Insects |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/13/5/486 |