Promiscuous Honey Bee Queens Increase Colony Productivity by Suppressing Worker Selfishness
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Promiscuous Honey Bee Queens Increase Colony Productivity by Suppressing Worker Selfishness
Queen monogamy is ancestral among bees, ants, and wasps (Order Hymenoptera), and the close relatedness that it generates within colonies is considered key for the evolution of eusociality in these lineages. Paradoxically, queens of several eusocial species are extremely promiscuous, a derived behavior that decreases relatedness among workers and fitness gained from rearing siblings but benefits...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.08.021