Effects of Selection for Honey Bee Worker Reproduction on Foraging Traits
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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 traits that are characteristic of the reproductive phase of solitary insects, whereas workers express traits cha...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Biology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1545-7885
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060056