Ecdysteroid titer and reproduction in queens and workers of the honey bee and of a stingless bee: loss of ecdysteroid function at increasing levels of sociality?
- 1 February 2002
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Vol. 32 (2) , 211-216
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0965-1748(01)00100-x
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