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The Honeybee Queen Influences The Regulation Of Colony Drone Production, Behav.
Ecol.
 









Excerpt: Social insect colonies invest in reproduction and growth, but how
colonies achieve an adaptive allocation to these life-history characters remains
an open question in social insect biology. Attempts to understand how a colony's
investment in reproduction is shaped by the queen and the workers have proved
complicated because of the potential for queen-worker conflict over the colony's
investment in males versus females. Honeybees, in which this conflict is
expected to be minimal or absent, provide an opportunity to more clearly study
how the actions and interactions of individuals influence the colony's
production and regulation of males (drones). (...)
Source: The Honeybee Queen Influences The Regulation Of Colony Drone Production[
http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/18/6/1092 ], K. E. Wharton
- wharton2msu.edu, F. C. Dyer, Z. Y. Huang, T. Getty, DOI:
10.1093/beheco/arm086, Behavioral Ecology, Nov.-Dec. 2007, online 2007/10/14
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