Functional flexibility of the honey bee hypopharyngeal gland in a dequeened colony

Zoological Science

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1089-1094

  Ohashi, Kazuaki ^a   Sasaki, Masami ^b   Sasagawa, Hiromi ^c   Nakamura, Jun ^b   Natori, Shunji ^a   Kubo, Takeo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 0034311051     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.17.1089     Document Type: Article

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