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SUBMITTER: Eouzan I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6368279 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Eouzan Iris I Garnery Lionel L Pinto M Alice MA Delalande Damien D Neves Cátia J CJ Fabre Francis F Lesobre Jérôme J Houte Sylvie S Estonba Andone A Montes Iratxe I Sime-Ngando Télesphore T Biron David G DG
PloS one 20190208 2
Sociality has brought many advantages to various hymenoptera species, including their ability of regulating physical factors in their nest (e.g., temperature). Although less studied, humidity is known to be important for egg, larval and pupal development, and also for nectar concentration. Two subspecies of Apis mellifera of the M evolutionary lineage were used as models to test the ability of a superorganism (i.e. honeybee colony) to regulate the humidity in its nest (i.e. "hygroregulation hypo ...[more]