Deformed wing virus and drone mating flights in the honey bee (Apis mellifera): Implications for sexual transmission of a major honey bee virus. Apidologie, 43(1), 17-30.Yan˜ez, O., Jaffe´, R., Jarosch, A., Fries, I., Moritz, R. F. A., Paxton, R. J., & de Miranda, ...
Honey bee larval food jelly is a secretion of the hypopharyngeal and mandibular glands of young worker bees that take care of the growing brood in the hive. Food jelly is fed to all larvae (workers, drones and queens) and as royal jelly to the queen bee
The magnitude of the QTL effects on ovary size suggests either a link to the evolution of caste differ- ences [22] or a significant role of this variation in colony function [37]. With direct, pleiotropic effects in four of fourteen QTL tests in this system, the detected genetic overlap ...
Notably, major royal jelly proteins, a crucial multifunctional protein family with irreplaceable function in sustaining the development of colonies, were significantly suppressed in carbendazim-treated bees. This result was verified in both head and hypopharyngeal gland of nurse bees. Moreover, visual ...