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Re: Nutritional stress a critical factor
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Peter L Borst <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 10 May 2021 09:06:16 -0400
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quoting from Amy Toth, et al

> we found that diet quantity deprivation (restricted access to nurse bees) during the fifth instar of larval development resulted in decreased ovariole number. This manipulation of larval diet supports the hypothesis that, in honeybee workers, nutritional stress leads to divestment in ovarian development and an increase in cooperative behaviour.

> Although our data are consistent with the argument that nutritional stress leads to adaptive changes in physiological and behavioural life‐history strategies in honeybees, there are other possible explanations

Walton, Toth, et al. Hungry for the queen: Honeybee nutritional environment affects worker pheromone response in a life stage‐dependent manner

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