Recognition pheromones of the honey bee

BioScience

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 463-470

  Breed, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 0031982012     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1313244     Document Type: Review

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