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The Phenotypic Effects of Royal Jelly on Wild-Type D. melanogaster Are Strain-Specific.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Morgan Stefanie L, Seggio Joseph A, Nascimento Nara F, Huh Dana D, Hicks Jasmin A, Sharp Katherine A, Axelrod Jeffrey D, Wang Kevin C
Abstract excerpt
The role for royal jelly (RJ) in promoting caste differentiation of honeybee larvae into queens rather than workers is well characterized. A recent study demonstrated that this poorly understood complex nutrition drives strikingly similar phenotypic effects in Drosophila melanogaster, such as increased body size and reduced developmental time, making possible the use of D. melanogaster as a model system for the...
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