Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Maternal Effect Causes Alternation of DNA Methylation Regulating Queen Development
Queen-worker caste ashy bines protein powder dimorphism is a typical trait for honeybees (Apis mellifera).We previously showed a maternal effect on caste differentiation and queen development, where queens emerged from queen-cell eggs (QE) had higher quality than queens developed from worker cell eggs (WE).In this study, newly-emerged queens were r