Morphogenesis of honeybee hypopharyngeal gland during pupal development
Abstract Background The hypopharyngeal gland of worker bees contributes to the production of the royal jelly fed to queens and larvae. The gland consists of thousands of two-cell units that are composed of a secretory cell and a duct cell and that are arranged in sets of about 12 around a long colle...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-04-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Zoology |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12983-017-0207-z |