Distinguishing the effects of dilution and restricted movement on the intra-nest transmission of honey-bee queen pheromones

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 307-327

  Watmough, James ^a   Winston, Mark ^b   Slessor, Keith ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIOSTATISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; HONEYBEE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW;

EID: 0032030165     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bulm.1997.0006     Document Type: Article

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