ReviewCurrent opinion in insect science2016
Ties between ageing plasticity and reproductive physiology in honey bees (Apis mellifera) reveal a positive relation between fecundity and longevity as consequence of advanced social evolution.
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- Common viral infections inhibit egg laying in honey bee queens and are linked to premature supersedure.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Oxidative stress and senescence in social insects: a significant but inconsistent link?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Why and how do termite kings and queens live so long?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Reproductive activation in honeybee (Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Morphological and genomic shifts in mole-rat 'queens' increase fecundity but reduce skeletal integrity.eLife · 2021Article
- Eusociality and Senescence: Neuroprotection and Physiological Resilience to Aging in Insect and Mammalian Systems.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Review
- Reproductive potential does not cause loss of heat shock response performance in honey bees.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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- Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus: Honey Bee Queen⁻Worker Interaction and Potential Virus Transmission Pathways.Insects · 2019Article
- Putative Drone Copulation Factors Regulating Honey Bee (Insects · 2019Review
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- Species-specific genes under selection characterize the co-evolution of slavemaker and host lifestyles.BMC evolutionary biology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are the best studied model of ageing among the social insects. As in other social insects, the reproductive queen far outlives her non-reproductive workers despite developing from the same genome in the same colony environment. Thus, the different social roles of the two female castes are critical for the profound phenotypic plasticity. In several special cases, such as the reproductive workers of Apis mellifera capensis, within-caste plasticity enables further studies of the fecundity-longevity syndrome in honey bees. At present, molecular evidence suggests that a reorganization of physiological control pathways may facilitate longevity of reproductive individuals. However, the social role and social environment of the different colony members are also very important and one of the key future questions is how much social facilitation versus internal regulation is responsible for the positive association between fecundity and longevity in honey bees.
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