{"id":835,"date":"2023-12-01T23:29:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T23:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/?p=835"},"modified":"2023-12-01T23:29:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T23:29:07","slug":"new-publication-on-egg-size-and-development-of-honey-bee-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/2023\/12\/01\/new-publication-on-egg-size-and-development-of-honey-bee-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication on egg size and development of honey bee workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2589004223026238\">new study<\/a>, we show that eggs of queens in small colonies\u00a0 are not only larger but also qualitatively better than eggs produced by queens in big colonies. The superior eggs give larvae a head start. Under natural conditions, larvae that start small but grow up in large colonies can compensate by growing faster and end up similarly-sized as adult workers that grow from big eggs in small colonies. However, when small eggs are transferred into small colonies, they do not catch up and emerge as smaller adults.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-836\" src=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2023\/12\/GraphicalAbstract_Final-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2023\/12\/GraphicalAbstract_Final-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2023\/12\/GraphicalAbstract_Final-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2023\/12\/GraphicalAbstract_Final-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2023\/12\/GraphicalAbstract_Final.jpg 907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new study, we show that eggs of queens in small colonies\u00a0 are not only larger but also qualitatively better than eggs produced by queens in big colonies. The <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/2023\/12\/01\/new-publication-on-egg-size-and-development-of-honey-bee-workers\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}