Evolution of worker sterility in honey bees: egg-laying workers express queen-like secretion in Dufour’s gland
- 26 March 2002
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
- Vol. 51 (6) , 588-589
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-002-0479-x
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