Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms of Nutrition in Honey Bees

What is it about?

This is a review on the nutrition and physiological process related to nutrition in honeybees, special focuses included nutrition for different castes in a bee hive, molecular pathways and genetic explanations for different castes.

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Why is it important?

This review summarized nutrition related metabolism and pathways of honeybee with recent scientific discoveries, and more up to date. Not only the genetics but also epigenetics contribute to caste differentiation.

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