The production of males in queenright colonies of Tetragonisca angustula angustula (Hymenoptera, Meliponinae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 475-485

  Grosso, Adriana Ferreira ^a   Bego, Luci Rolandi ^a   Martinez, Alexandre Souto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Conflict; Laying workers; Male production; Meliponinae; Stingless bee

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034340757     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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