Trade-offs between sperm viability and immune protein expression in honey bee queens (Apis mellifera)

Honey bee queens store and use sperm for years after mating, but doing so may require a dampened immune response to keep the sperm viable. Alison McAfee et al. tested this hypothesis using mass spectrometry-based proteomics in queens with high and low sperm quantity and quality and found that lower...

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Main Authors: Alison McAfee, Abigail Chapman, Jeffery S. Pettis, Leonard J. Foster, David R. Tarpy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01586-w