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Precocene II has no anti-juvenile hormone effects in adult honey bees

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In order to study further details of the function of JH in adult honey bees, precocene II was applied to workers and queens. Corpora allata ultrastructure, JH and vitellogenin titer (worker bees) as well as egg-laying activity (queens) showed no specific changes after precocene treatment. Doses of 80 μg caused high mortality in workers while queens tolerated 200 μg.

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  1. Federal Dairy Research Station, Apicultural Section, CH-3097, Liebefeld-Bern, Switzerland

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The author thanks Dr A. Buehler for doing the histological part of the work, Dr H. Wille and Dr L. Gerig for valuable discussions and Dr S. Bogdanov for critical reading of the manuscript. The investigation was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation grant No. 3. 188. 77.

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Fluri, P. Precocene II has no anti-juvenile hormone effects in adult honey bees. Experientia 39, 919–920 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01990438

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