Task partitioning in insect societies. II. Use of queueing delay information in recruitment

American Naturalist

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 536-548

  Ratnieks, Francis L W ^a   Anderson, Carl ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ergonomics; Honeybee; Information; Queueing delays; Social insects; Task partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033402871     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303256     Document Type: Article

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