Effects of relatedness on queen competition within honey bee colonies

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 537-543

  Tarpy, David R ^a,b   Fletcher, David J C ^a  

^a BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HONEYBEE; KIN SLECTION; QUEEN; RELATEDNESS;

APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0031899841     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0617     Document Type: Article

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