Worker selection

Effect of queen treatment on two different measures of queen reproductive potential.

Left: Queens
that derived from worker-accessible cells were significantly larger (bottom) than those derived from worker-excluded cells, with a non- significant trend for weight (top). I don’t discuss subfamily type in this post. See text for further details and the full citation Tarpy et al., 2016.

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