Dufour's gland secretion of the queen honeybee (Apis mellifera): An egg discriminator pheromone or a queen signal?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 76-86

  Katzav Gozansky, Tamar ^a   Soroker, Victoria ^b   Ibarra, Fernando ^c   Francke, Wittko ^c   Hefetz, Abraham ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attraction; Dufour's gland; Egg marking discriminator; Honeybee; Worker policing

Indexed keywords

EGG REJECTION; HONEYBEE; QUEEN; SECRETION; WORKER POLICING;

APIDAE; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APUS APUS; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0035786210     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650100406     Document Type: Article

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