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Honeybees and Magnetoreception [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 1995
Studies of honeybee magnetoreception that provide anatomical and biophysical constraints on the insect receptor system contradict the conclusions of Hsu and Li in their report about iron granules in the abdominal trophocytes of honeybees. ; © 1995 American Association for the Advancement of Science. Received 28 December 1994; accepted 9 May 1995.
Nichol, Helen   +6 more
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High-Quality Queens Produce High-Quality Offspring Queens

open access: yesInsects, 2022
Honey bees, rather than rear queens with eggs and larvae from worker cells, prefer to rear new queens with eggs form queen cells, if available. This may be a result of long-term evolutionary process for honey bee colonies. However, the exact mechanism of
Longtao Yu   +5 more
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Effects of larval exposure to the insecticide flumethrin on the development of honeybee (Apis mellifera) workers

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2022
Flumethrin is a widely used acaricide, but its improper use often leads to residue accumulation in honeybee colonies, thus threatening the health of honeybees, especially at the larval stage. Therefore, this study aimed to describe the direct toxicity of
Chen Liu   +9 more
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Feeding Asian honeybee queens with European honeybee royal jelly alters body color and expression of related coding and non-coding RNAs

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2023
Background and aims: The Asian honeybee (Apis cerana) and the European honeybee (Apis mellifera) are reproductively isolated. Previous studies reported that exchanging the larval food between the two species, known as nutritional crossbreeding, resulted ...
Amal Abdelmawla   +10 more
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Caste-biased Expression of fem and Amdsx Genes in Apis mellifera ligustica (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

open access: yesSociobiology, 2021
Sex determination and caste differentiation are two crucial processes for morphology building in honeybees. It is unclear whether there is an interaction between these two processes.
Lu-Xia Pan, Fu-Ping Cheng, Zi-Long Wang
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The Juvenile-Hormone-Responsive Factor AmKr-h1 Regulates Caste Differentiation in Honey Bees

open access: yesBiomolecules, 2023
Honey bees are typical model organisms for the study of caste differentiation, and the juvenile hormone (JH) is a crucial link in the regulatory network of caste differentiation in honey bees.
Zhi-Xian Gong   +4 more
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Female developmental environment delays development of male honeybee (Apis mellifera)

open access: yesBMC Genomics, 2021
Background Nutrition and cell size play an important role in the determination of caste differentiation in queen and worker of honeybees (Apis mellifera), whereas the haploid genome dominates the differentiation of drones.
Yi Bo Liu   +5 more
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A Comparison of RNA Interference via Injection and Feeding in Honey Bees

open access: yesInsects, 2022
RNA interference (RNAi) has been used successfully to reduce target gene expression and induce specific phenotypes in several species. It has proved useful as a tool to investigate gene function and has the potential to manage pest populations and reduce
Yong Zhang   +4 more
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Phenotypic dimorphism between honeybee queen and worker is regulated by complicated epigenetic modifications

open access: yesiScience, 2023
Summary: Phenotypic dimorphism between queens and workers is an important biological characteristic of honeybees that has been the subject of intensive research.
Meng Jie Jin   +9 more
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Honey bee maternal effects improve worker performance and reproductive ability in offspring

open access: yesFrontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2023
Maternal effects are an evolutionary strategy used to improve offspring quality. In an example of maternal effects in honey bees (Apis mellifera), mother queens produce larger eggs in queen cells than in worker cells in order to breed better daughter ...
Longtao Yu   +10 more
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