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Honeybee social regulatory networks are shaped by colony-level selection.
The American naturalist - 1 Mar 2009
Linksvayer Timothy A, Fondrk Michael K, Page Robert E
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Social interactions pervade all aspects of life in the social insects. Networks of interacting nestmates enable the maintenance of colony homeostasis and regulation of brood development. Artificial colony-level selection on the amount of pollen stored in honeybee colonies has produced high- and low-pollen-hoarding strains that have been used as a model system to study the genetic and physiological basis of...
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