Strength surpasses relatedness-queen larva selection in honeybees.

Nepotism was initially theoretically predicted and sometimes found to trigger the selection of specific larvae to be reared as queens in the honeybee Apis mellifera. Although the importance of selecting the next queen for a colony indicates that it should not occur at random, nepotism is increasingl...

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Main Authors: Saad Naser Al-Kahtani, Kaspar Bienefeld
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/00d030365ff448a48ffebbe6aed6c09d
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