Ontogeny of orientation flight in the honeybee revealed by harmonic radar

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6769, 2000, Pages 537-540

  Capaldi, Elizabeth A ^a   Smith, Alan D ^b   Osborne, Juliet L ^c   Fahrbach, Susan E ^a   Farris, Sarah M ^a   Reynolds, Donald R ^b   Edwards, Ann S ^b   Martin, Andrew ^c   Robinson, Gene E ^a   Poppy, Guy M ^c   Riley, Joseph R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^c IACR Rothamsted ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; HONEYBEE; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; RADAR;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 0034598789     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35000564     Document Type: Article

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