2022
DOI: 10.1101/2022.03.20.485028
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Eusocial insect queens show costs of reproduction and transcriptomic signatures of reduced longevity

Abstract: Eusocial insect queens have been suggested to be counter-examples to the standard evolutionary theory of ageing through lacking costs of reproduction. Using the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris), we tested this hypothesis experimentally against the alternative that costs of reproduction exist in eusocial insect queens, but are latent, resulting in the positive fecundity-longevity relationship typically found in unmanipulated queens. We experimentally increased queens' costs of reproduction by removing their eggs, … Show more

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