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SUBMITTER: Princen SA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6599994 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Princen Sarah A SA Oliveira Ricardo Caliari RC Ernst Ulrich R UR Millar Jocelyn G JG van Zweden Jelle S JS Wenseleers Tom T
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20190619 1905
Queen pheromones, which signal the presence of a fertile queen and induce workers to remain sterile, play a key role in regulating reproductive division of labour in insect societies. In the honeybee, volatiles produced by the queen's mandibular glands have been argued to act as the primary sterility-inducing pheromones. This contrasts with evidence from other groups of social insects, where specific queen-characteristic hydrocarbons present on the cuticle act as conserved queen signals. This le ...[more]