Reproductive capacity and castes in eusocial stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae).

Autor: Luna-Lucena D; Departamento de Genética, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. Electronic address: dlunalucena@usp.br., Rabico F; Departamento de Genética, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil., Simoes ZL; Departamento de Genética, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil; Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. Electronic address: zlpsimoe@usp.br.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Current opinion in insect science [Curr Opin Insect Sci] 2019 Feb; Vol. 31, pp. 20-28. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Jul 02.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2018.06.006
Abstrakt: Eusocial lifestyle is one of the most important transitions in the evolutionary history of some groups of organisms. In bees, there are only two eusocial groups: the honey bees (Apini) and the stingless bees (Meliponini). Despite similarities on the eusocial lifestyles of these taxa, they present profound differences related to caste determination, development, behavior, and reproductive capacity of their members. In most of them the queen has a monopoly on reproduction. However, even though workers are tipically sterile, they can contribute to producing haploid eggs that generate males, or trophic eggs, used as an additional nutrition by the queen.
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