Queens play an essential role in the colonies of stingless bees. Typically, only one queen occurs in a colony at any time, and she dominates the egg laying
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including bumble bees and paper wasps, there is no morphological differentiation between queens and workers except for body size, but a division of labor is seen in reproduction. In contrast, in advanced eusocial species, including
the 200 µL head extract was divided into two, with 100 µL stored as backup, should there be need for further confirmation or analyses. The other 100 µL was evaporated to dryness under a steady stream of charcoal-filtered ...
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The head and thorax of individual queens were detached from the queen abdomen and stored at − 80 °C. Later, the queen heads were partially lyophilized and brains were dissected out on dry ice and preserved in RNAlater at − 80 °C until gene expression analysis. Queen abdomens were ...