Genotype and rearing environment affect honeybee perception and foraging behaviour

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 663-672

  Pankiw, Tanya ^a   Tarpy, David R ^b   Page, Robert E ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENOTYPE; HONEYBEE; REARING;

APIDAE; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0036421113     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.3096     Document Type: Article

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