Coordination Between the Sexes Constrains the Optimization of Reproductive Timing in Honey Bee Colonies
Abstract Honeybees are an excellent model system for examining how trade-offs shape reproductive timing in organisms with seasonal environments. Honeybee colonies reproduce two ways: producing swarms comprising a queen and thousands of workers or producing males (drones). There is an energetic trade...
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Nature Portfolio
2017
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