Reproduction, social behavior, and aging trajectories in honeybee workers
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Genetics of reproduction and regulation of honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) social behavior.
Honeybees form complex societies with a division of labor for reproduction, nutrition, nest construction and maintenance, and defense. How does it evolve? Tasks performed by worker honeybees are distributed in time and space. There is no central control over behavior and there is no central genome on which selection can act and effect adaptive change. For 22 years, we have been addressing these...
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عنوان ژورنال: AGE
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0161-9152,1574-4647
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-013-9546-7