Support for the reproductive ground plan hypothesis of social evolution and major QTL for ovary traits of Africanized worker honey bees (Apis mellifera L.)

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Graham, Allie M ^a,b   Munday, Michael D ^a   Kaftanoglu, Osman ^c   Page, Robert E ^c   Amdam, Gro V ^c,d   Rueppell, Olav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Complex trait locus mapping; Pollen hoarding syndrome; Reproductive groundplan hypothesis; Social evolution; Worker reproduction

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; COLONY; EUSOCIALITY; FERTILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HONEYBEE; HYBRID; LABOR DIVISION; MORPHOLOGY; PLEIOTROPY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WORKER CASTE;

APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 79953876813     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-95     Document Type: Article

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