Development and behaviour of anarchistic honeybees

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1431, 1999, Pages 1875-1878

  Oldroyd, B P ^a   Halling, L ^a   Rinderer, T E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anarchy; Kin selection; Laying workers; Worker policing; Worker sterility

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HONEYBEE; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HONEYBEE; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 0033595467     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0860     Document Type: Article

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