Reproductive conflicts in honeybee colonies
In advanced eusocial hymenopteran societies workers have ovaries and can lay eggs, but are unable to mate. Workers are more related to their own offspring than to every other member of the colony. So worker reproduction contains both worker-worker and worker-queen conflict. The queen- worker conflic...
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Rhodes University
2002
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005443 |