Seminal fluid compromises visual perception in honeybee queens reducing their survival during additional mating flights

Seminal fluid compromises visual perception in honeybee queens reducing their survival during additional mating flights

Queens of social insects make all mate-choice decisions on a single day, except in honeybees whose queens can conduct mating flights for several days even when already inseminated by a number of drones. Honeybees therefore appear to have a unique, evolutionarily derived form of sexual conflict: a qu...

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Main Authors: Joanito Liberti, Julia Görner, Mat Welch, Ryan Dosselli, Morten Schiøtt, Yuri Ogawa, Ian Castleden, Jan M Hemmi, Barbara Baer-Imhoof, Jacobus J Boomsma, Boris Baer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2019-09-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
social insects
sexual conflict
RNA-sequencing
neurotranscriptomics
artificial insemination
Apis mellifera
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/45009

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