Ihave attempted to present the case for the queen's dominance of the colony, but it is far from unanimous among researchers as to what the actual role of the queen substance is. Recently Yves le Contes, the world renowned bee researcher, asked: "Do queen-borne behavior-modifying chemicals constitute bona fide primers that regulate worker physiology directly, or do they act as informative signals to workers, indirectly influencing worker physiology and behavior in a context-dependent manner?"
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机译：我曾尝试说明女王在殖民地中的统治地位，但是研究人员对于女王物质的实际作用还远未达成一致。最近，世界著名的蜜蜂研究者伊夫·孔戴斯（Yves le Contes）问道：“皇后行为修饰化学物质是否构成直接调节工人生理的真正底漆，还是作为向工人提供信息的信号，从而间接影响工人的生理和行为。取决于上下文的方式？”
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