Effects of selection for honey bee worker reproduction on foraging traits.

The "reproductive ground plan" hypothesis (RGPH) proposes that reproductive division of labour in social insects had its antecedents in the ancient gene regulatory networks that evolved to regulate the foraging and reproductive phases of their solitary ancestors. Thus, queens express trait...

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Main Authors: Benjamin P Oldroyd, Madeleine Beekman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-03-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/18318602/?tool=EBI