Research progress on the queenworker caste differentiation in the honeybee(Apis mellifera).
Author of the article:HUANG Shao-Kang1,2,CHEN Sheng-Lu1
Author's Workplace:(1.College of Animal Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029,China; 2. College of Bee Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China).
Key Words:caste; differentiation; honeybee (Apis mellifera); juvenile hormone; corpora allata
Abstract:Honeybee Apis mekifera typically is a social insect species. Queen and worker are both diploids developed from fertilized eggs, but they have distinctive differences in morphology, physiology, behavior etc, belonging to two castes. The crucial peri