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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Food absence is a cue for metamorphosis in the solitary bee

Courtney C Grula, Jeffrey D Kittilson, Jason Holthusen, Joseph P Rinehart, Julia H Bowsher

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Food absence is a cue for metamorphosis in the solitary beeProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Courtney C GrulaDepartment of Biological Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58102.ORCID 0000-0002-4711-1942
Jeffrey D KittilsonDepartment of Biological Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58102.
Jason HolthusenAnimal Metabolism-Agricultural Chemicals Unit, Edward T. Schafer Research Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service, Fargo, ND 58102.
Joseph P RinehartWeed and Insect Biology Unit, Edward T. Schafer Research Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service, Fargo, ND 58102.
Julia H BowsherDepartment of Biological Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58102.ORCID 0000-0001-6347-9635

Funding

NSF-IOS 1557040NSF-RII-Track2 FEC 1826834
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The timing of metamorphosis in insects determines adult body size and influences aspects of fitness including flight performance and fecundity. The regulation of metamorphosis has been well studied in model insects but determining the cue that initiates the physiological shift toward metamorphosis in other insects has been challenging. In most insects, the critical weight is a cue to initiate metamorphosis. Our goal was to determine the cue for metamorphosis in the solitary bee

Indexed as

Food DeprivationMetamorphosis, BiologicalAnimalsBeesCuesJuvenile HormonesLarvaJuvenile Hormonescritical weightinsect metamorphosissolitary bees

Identifiers

PMID41461034
PMCPMC12773758

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