Task-partitioned nectar transfer in stingless bees: Work organisation in a phylogenetic context

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 163-168

  Hart, Adam G ^a   Ratnieks, Francis L W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Foraging; Melipona; Meliponini; Nannotrigona; Nectar transfer; Plebeia; Scaptotrigona; Task partitioning; Trigona

Indexed keywords

BEE; EUSOCIALITY; NECTAR; PHYLOGENETICS; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION;

APIDAE; APINAE; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BOMBINI; BOMBUS (GENUS); HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; MELIPONA; MELIPONINAE; NANNOTRIGONA; PLEBEIA; SCAPTOTRIGONA; TRIGONA;

EID: 0036225225     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.2002.00411.x     Document Type: Article

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