Function and mechanism of mirror-image ambiguity in bumblebees

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1295-1303

  Plowright, C M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOIDEA; BOMBUS IMPATIENS; IMPATIENS; APIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

BUMBLEBEES; MIRROR-IMAGE AMBIGUITY;

EID: 0031150176     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0363     Document Type: Article

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