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How flies respond to honey bee pheromone: the role of the foraging gene on reproductive response to queen mandibular pheromone.
Die Naturwissenschaften - 1 Jan 2014
Camiletti Alison L, Awde David N, Thompson Graham J
Abstract excerpt
In this study we test one central prediction from sociogenomic theory--that social and non-social taxa share common genetic toolkits that regulate reproduction in response to environmental cues. We exposed Drosophila females of rover (for(R)) and sitter (for(s)) genotypes to an ovary-suppressing pheromone derived from the honeybee Apis mellifera. Surprisingly, queen mandibular pheromone (QMP) affected several...
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