Differences in the morphology, physiology and gene expression of honey bee queens and workers reared in vitro versus in situ.

ABSTRACT: The effect of larval nutrition on female fertility in honey bees is a focus for both scientific studies and for practical applications in beekeeping. In general, morphological traits are standards for classifying queens and workers and for evaluating their quality. In recent years, in vitro rearing techniques have been improved and used in many studies; they can produce queen-like and worker-like bees. Here, we questioned whether queens and workers reared in vitro are the same as queens and workers reared in a natural hive environment. We reared workers and queens both in vitro and naturally in beehives to test how these different environments affect metabolic physiology and candidate genes in newly emerged queens and workers. We found that sugar (glucose and trehalose

SUBMITTER: De Souza DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6262861 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature