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

PLoS biology - 4 Mar 2008

Oldroyd Benjamin P, Beekman Madeleine

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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 characteristic of the...

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PMID: 18318602
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060056
PMCID: PMC2270312

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