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> Perhaps I'm missing something, but this paper seems irrelevant to the issue of worker/queen divergence.
In the abstract:
> Our results suggest that this mechanism may play a role in honey bee queen–worker differentiation and worker division of labor, both of which are related to the responses to _nutritional stress_
They go on to say:
In honey bees, the quality and quantity of food ingested by female
larvae is controlled by nurse bees. Food intake results in the
differential development of adult queens or workers (Atkins et al.,
1975; Page, 2013). When a female larva is fed ad libitum with
higher quality food throughout development, she becomes a queen
with about 200 ovarioles and produces eggs throughout her adult
life. When a female larva receives _a restricted diet of lower quality_
she becomes a worker that usually has fewer than 20 ovarioles, is
facultatively sterile, and is responsible for feeding brood, nest
construction and maintenance, colony defense and foraging for food
for the colony.
PLB
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