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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 May 29.
Published in final edited form as: Ageing Res Rev. 2005 Aug;4(3):398–408. doi: 10.1016/j.arr.2005.03.007

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Representation of the investment embodied in honey bee workers. Patterns during the favorable and unfavorable season are depicted by full and dash-dotted lines, respectively. The red circle identifies the relative time of onset of foraging. The dotted line exemplifies the investment in a bee that receives little or no proteinacious jelly after emergence. The dynamics match the relative vitellogenin concentrations of the bees accurately (e.g., Engels and Fahrenhorst, 1974; Fluri et al., 1982; Amdam et al., 2004a).