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Association between Larger Ovaries and Pollen Foraging in Queenless Apis cerana Workers Supports the Reproductive Ground-plan Hypothesis of Social Evolution

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Nikolaus and Gudrun Koeniger for laying the foundation for this collaboration and providing assistance and advice during the experiment. Johan Billen helped in the interpretation of Fig. 1 and two anonymous reviewers provided helpful suggestions to improve the manuscript. Financial support was provided by NIA (grant #PO1 AG22500) and the National Science Foundation (grant #0615502).

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  2. Agricultural Research Station, Tenom, Sabah, Malaysia

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Rueppell, O., Hunggims, E. & Tingek, S. Association between Larger Ovaries and Pollen Foraging in Queenless Apis cerana Workers Supports the Reproductive Ground-plan Hypothesis of Social Evolution. J Insect Behav 21, 317–321 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10905-008-9135-2

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