Royalactin is not a royal making of a queen

Nature

Volumn 537, Issue 7621, 2016, Pages E10-E12

  Buttstedt, Anja ^a   Ihling, Christian H ^a   Pietzsch, Markus ^a   Moritz, Robin F A ^a,b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROYAL JELLY; ROYALACTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH RESPONSE; HONEYBEE; LABORATORY METHOD; LARVA; PROTEIN; SUGAR;

FEMALE; HONEYBEE; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REARING; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 84989193370     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature19349     Document Type: Short Survey

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