Beyond royal jelly: Study identifies plant chemical that determines a honey bee's caste

Sunday, August 30, 2015 - 16:00 in Biology & Nature

A closer look at how honey bee colonies determine which larvae will serve as workers and which will become queens reveals that a plant chemical, p-coumaric acid, plays a key role in the bees' developmental fate.

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