GENETIC COMPONENT OF BEE ODOR IN KIN RECOGNITION

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GREENBERG, L
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10.1126/science.206.4422.1095
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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The primitively social sweat bee, Lasioglossum zephyrum, blocks the entry into its nest of most conspecifies from other colonies. Laboratory inbreeding of these bees produced lines which showed a positive linear relationship between the coefficient of relationship of bees tested and how often they permitted non-nestmates to pass them. The most probable mechanism is a genetically determined odor coupled with a learned component by which guard bees discriminate between odors of close kin and other bees.
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