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Original title: Study finds that worker bee diet ingredients prevent it from becoming king of bees: ovaries lose function
September 4
Western media reported that a study by a team of researchers at Nanjing University in China showed that a nutrient component in the diet structure of worker bees prevented worker bees from becoming bees, the study published in the American Journal of Public Library of Science Genetics.
According to EFE on August 31st, a team led by Chen Xi said that the regulatory molecules contained in plants, tiny KERNs, are found in a mixture of pollen and nectar, known as "worker bee bread", which is the main diet of worker bees.
researchers say the diet determines the development of bee larvae, slowing their development while also making their ovaries dysfun functional, where as different from the king of bees, which only eat bee paste.
researchers have long known the important role of the diet in whether bee larvae become queens of bees, as worker bee larvae eat bee paste pulp only three days after birth and have since started eating "bread,"
reported. However, the bee king has been eating bee royal pulp all his life, which is the secretion of the pharynx and jaw glands of young workers.
reported that the tiny KERNs in bee bread are much higher than in bee pulp, so Chen and his team decided to study whether the molecules that regulate plant gene expression affect bee development.
They found that bee larvae fed in the lab with bee breads that added plant tiny KERNs were slower to develop, thin and have smaller ovaries than bee larvae fed with food that did not add the ingredient.
researchers say plant tiny KERNs have a similar effect on fruit fly larvae.
study proves that bee species formation is influenced by more than just bee paste. The regulation of bee development by plant micro-ICTs proves that the worker bees and bees have successfully adapted to evolution by combining the survival of the species. (Compilation/Wang Lu)