Turning workers into false queens: the role of exogenous pheromones in regulating reproduction in worker honey bees.

doi:10.1242/jeb.175505

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Turning workers into false queens: the role of exogenous pheromones in regulating reproduction in worker honey bees.

The Journal of experimental biology - 10 Jul 2018

Yusuf Abdullahi A, Crewe Robin M, Pirk Christian W W

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One of the responses that honey bee workers can make in the event of queen loss is to develop into false queens. False queens are workers that exhibit both behavioural and physiological traits similar to those of a true queen. However, the presence of more than one false queen in a colony distorts the established hierarchies. As transformation into a false queen occurs after emergence as an adult, we tested the...

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PMID: 29776997
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.175505

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