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JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE
卷 22, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/jisesa/ieac021
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fecundity; haplodiploidy; drone rearing; anarchistic workers
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资金
- USDA [2030-21000-055-000-D]
This study found that drone laying workers can lay eggs in Queen Monitoring Cages under controlled conditions. By comparing the cages containing queens and those containing drone laying workers, differences in egg production and worker mortality were observed, and candidate characteristics to determine the sex of larvae were identified through qualitative comparison of high-definition images.
Techniques to monitor honey bee (Apis mellifera) egg production in cages allow researchers to study how different environmental factors contribute to reproduction. However, although the conditions required to facilitate queen egg production in a laboratory setting have been established, limited work has addressed the requirements for stimulating and monitoring worker egg laying. Here, we documented that drone laying workers will lay eggs in Queen Monitoring Cages (QMC), specialized cages designed to facilitate queen egg laying under controlled conditions. Egg production and worker mortality were compared between QMCs containing queens and those containing drone laying workers. High-definition images of the last abdominal segments of living first-instar larvae hatched from worker laid eggs and those putatively laid by queens were qualitatively compared to identify candidate characteristics to determine their sex.
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