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SUBMITTER: Jasper WC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7371693 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jasper W Cameron WC Brutscher Laura M LM Grozinger Christina M CM Niño Elina L EL
Scientific reports 20200720 1
Honey bee queens undergo dramatic behavioral (e.g., reduced sexual receptivity), physiological (e.g., ovary activation, ovulation, and modulation of pheromone production) and transcriptional changes after they complete mating. To elucidate how queen post-mating changes are influenced by seminal fluid, the non-spermatozoa-containing component of semen, we injected queens with semen or seminal fluid alone. We assessed queen sexual receptivity (as measured by likelihood to take mating flights), ova ...[more]