Major royal jelly proteins and hexamerins from honey bees were consistently more abundant in foundresses than in dispersing mites ( n =20093 biological replicates for each stage, approximately 50 mites/replicate). All data are presented as mean ± S.D. Significance of two-sided t-tests are indicated with ** and *** ( p <2009.01 and < 0.001, respectively). Source data and the exact p-values are provided in the Source Data file.
