Thermal Properties of Hornet Colonies: Thermography of Individual Hornets and Their Nests and the Role of the Pupal Silk in Thermoreulation

Physiological Chemistry and Physics and Medical NMR

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 103-118

  Litinetsky, Leon ^a   Rosenzweig, Eyal ^a   Ishay, Jacob S ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; MALE; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION; WASP;

ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PUPA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TEMPERATURE; WASPS;

EID: 0035232995     PISSN: 07486642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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