title: Animal behavior: the orphan rebellion.
abstract: After their queen has left with a swarm, orphaned larvae exhibiting rebel traits emerge in honeybee colonies. As adults, these orphans have reduced food glands to feed the colony's larvae and more developed ovaries to selfishly reproduce their own offspring.
authors.affiliation: University of California San Diego, Section of Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution Division of Biological Sciences, Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0116, USA. jnieh@ucsd.edu
authors.forename: James C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Nieh
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal; D012919:Social Behavior