Moreover, the robbing behaviour of female carpenter bees is more destructive and affects flower structures (ovules and nectaries) and floral life‐span more than that of the male bee. According to the energy trade‐off hypothesis, the net energy gain for male bees during nectar robbing greatly...
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In plants, sex chromosome turnover has not been frequently encountered, although in the Silene plant genus, transition from male to female heterogamety did take place in the subsection Otites (Slancarova et al., 2013). Also in the Populus genus, transitions between male and female heterogame...
The objective of the present study was to evaluate seed-set on four male-sterile, female-fertile soybean lines by using alfalfa leafcutting bees (Megachile rotundata(F.)) and honey bees (Apis mellifera(L.)) as pollinators. Seed-set was evaluated in summers 2003 and 2005 near Ames, Iowa,...
some reptiles and in the silkworm Bombyx mori; in Drosophila 4A/XX and XO prevails; the signaling sex lethal–transformer–doublesex cascade in (some) insects; the diploid–haploid female–male determining system of honey bees; temperature-dependent sex determination in some insect and other species...
Female solitary bees collect large amounts of pollen from flowers to create mass brood provisions for their offspring (Danforth et al. 2019). Adult bee pollen consumption for their own physiological maintenance remains poorly under- stood, and particularly so for male bees. Adult female solitary...
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The mating bias of naive females without any social experience was monitored in a mate-choice assay, where the identity of the male (NB1 vs. Wt1; or NB2 vs. Wt2) that mated first with that female was scored. To test if female mating outcome changed after a short social experience, we ...
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