Enhancing Production: Effects of Royalactin on Insect Development

Phenotypic plasticity is a phenomenon found in eusocial insects that produces distinct female castes through phenotypic responses to environmental change. Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are a perfect model to study phenotypic plasticity. Worker bees and queen bees, both of which are females, have diffe...

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Main Author: Piana, Mattia
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/68587/