Worker-Born Males Are Smaller but Have Similar Reproduction Ability to Queen-Born Males in Bumblebees
Queen-worker conflict over the reproduction of males exists in the majority of haplodiplioidy hymenpteran species such as bees, wasps, and ants, whose workers lose mating ability but can produce haploid males in colony. Bumblebee is one of the representatives of primitively eusocial insects with pla...
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Main Authors: | Huiyue Zhao, Yanjie Liu, Hong Zhang, Tom D. Breeze, Jiandong An |
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Language: | EN |
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MDPI AG
2021
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Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/dd1097c073804b7da4868ec65cc0c40f |
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