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The Honeybee Apis mellifera

Peter K. Dearden1, Elizabeth J. Duncan, and Megan J. Wilson

Laboratory for Evolution and Development, National Research Centre for Growth and Development, Biochemistry Department, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand

1Corresponding author (peter.dearden{at}otago.ac.nz)


INTRODUCTION

Honeybees (Apis mellifera) are distributed throughout the world and have a critical role in the pollination of crops and pasture. Honeybees have an intricate social structure and display complex behavioral traits such as sociality, language, division of labor, and exceptional feats of learning and memory. Honeybees also exhibit polyphenism, whereby the females can either develop as workers or as morphologically distinct, reproductively active queens. Although historical studies of honeybee biology have been performed, the recent advent of the genome sequence and a number of other modern tools have made dissection of the molecular details of this remarkable insect possible.


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