Effect of different nutritional diets on hypopharyngeal glands growth in nurse honey bees
نویسندگان
1 Division of Honey Bee, Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural Science and Engineering, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran
doi
10.22117/jesi.2022.356692.1436چکیده
Hypopharyngeal glands (HGs) are one of the most important body organs of nurse honey bees which produce the major protein fraction of royal jelly that is fed to larvae and queen. The HGs mass and acini size can be considered as robust indicator that is used to determine the quality of the diets fed to nurse bees. In the present study we focused on the effect of different nutritional diets on HGs growth and acini size in nurse honey bee workers. Results of ANOVA indicated that the test diets have a significant effect on HGs mass and their acini size.
