The Phenotypic Effects of Royal Jelly on Wild-Type D. melanogaster Are Strain-Specific

The role for royal jelly (RJ) in promoting caste differentiation of honeybee larvae into queens rather than workers is well characterized. A recent study demonstrated that this poorly understood complex nutrition drives strikingly similar phenotypic effects in Drosophila melanogaster, such as increa...

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Main Authors: Morgan, Stefanie L., Seggio, Joseph A., Nascimento, Nara F., Huh, Dana D., Hicks, Jasmin A., Sharp, Katherine A., Axelrod, Jeffrey D., Wang, Kevin C.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4972316/