Feminizer and doublesex knock-outs cause honey bees to switch sexes
Abstract
Honey bees are experts at refuting societal norms. Their matriarchal hives are headed by queens, backed by an all-female workforce, and males die soon after copulation. But the biochemical basis of how these distinct castes and sexes (queens, workers, and drones) arise is poorly understood, partly due to a lack of efficient tools for genetic manipulation. Now, Roth and colleagues have used clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic...
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Title
Feminizer and doublesex knock-outs cause honey bees to switch sexes
Published Date
May 6, 2019
Journal
Volume
17
Issue
5
Pages
e3000256 - e3000256
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