The sensitivity of a honeybee colony to worker mortality depends on season and resource availability

The sensitivity of a honeybee colony to worker mortality depends on season and resource availability

Abstract Background Honeybees have extraordinary phenotypic plasticity in their senescence rate, making them a fascinating model system for the evolution of aging. Seasonal variation in senescence and extrinsic mortality results in a tenfold increase in worker life expectancy in winter as compared t...

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Main Authors: Natalie J. Lemanski, Siddhant Bansal, Nina H. Fefferman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-10-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Subjects:
Apis mellifera
Demography
Disposable soma theory
Evolution of aging
Honeybee
Life history theory
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-020-01706-4

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