Comb wax effects on the ontogeny of honey bee nestmate recognition

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 13-20

  Breed, Michael D ^a   Leger, Elizabeth A ^a   Pearce, Alison N ^a   Wang, Yu Ju ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HONEYBEE; KIN RECOGNITION; ONTOGENY; WAX PRODUCTION;

APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0031959953     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0581     Document Type: Article

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