ArticleRoyal Society open science2016
Chemical communication is not sufficient to explain reproductive inhibition in the bumblebee
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- Tracking Existing Factors Directly Affecting the Reproduction of Bumblebees: Current Knowledge.Insects · 2024Review
- Substances in the mandibular glands mediate queen effects on larval development and colony organization in an annual bumble bee.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Supplementation in vitamin B3 counteracts the negative effects of tryptophan deficiencies in bumble bees.Conservation physiology · 2023Article
- The effect of the brood and the queen on early gene expression in bumble bee workers' brains.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Bumble Bee (Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2022Article
- Bumble bee queen pheromones are context-dependent.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Optimizing Laboratory Rearing of a Key Pollinator,Insects · 2021Article
- Chemical Variation among Castes, Female Life Stages and Populations of the Facultative Eusocial Sweat Bee Halictus rubicundus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae).Journal of chemical ecology · 2021Article
- Dufour's gland analysis reveals caste and physiology specific signals in Bombus impatiens.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Pheromonal Regulation of the Reproductive Division of Labor in Social Insects.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2020Review
- Queen Recognition Signals in Two Primitively Eusocial Halictid Bees: Evolutionary Conservation and Caste-Specific Perception.Insects · 2019Article
- Do Bumble Bees Produce Brood Pheromones?Journal of chemical ecology · 2019Article
- Reproductive Dominance Strategies in Insect Social Parasites.Journal of chemical ecology · 2018Review
- Identification and caste-dependent expression patterns of DNA methylation associated genes in Bombus terrestris.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Do Bumble Bee, Bombus impatiens, Queens Signal their Reproductive and Mating Status to their Workers?Journal of chemical ecology · 2017Article
- Chemical communication is not sufficient to explain reproductive inhibition in the bumblebeeRoyal Society open science · 2016Article
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Abstract
Reproductive division of labour is a hallmark of eusociality, but disentangling the underlying proximate mechanisms can be challenging. In bumblebees, workers isolated from the queen can activate their ovaries and lay haploid, male eggs. We investigated if volatile, contact, visual or behavioural cues produced by the queen or brood mediate reproductive dominance in
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