Effects of dietary precursors to biogenic amines on the behavioural response from groups of caged worker honey bees (Apis mellifera) to the alarm pheromone component isopentyl acetate

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 285-291

  Harris, Jeffrey W ^a   Woodring, Joseph ^b  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

5 hydroxytryptophan; Alarm pheromones; Biogenic amines; Honey bees; Kynurenine; L DOPA; Tryptophan

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; HONEYBEE; PHEROMONE;

APIDAE; APINAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032872513     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3032.1999.00141.x     Document Type: Article

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