Environmental and genetic influences on flight metabolic rate in the honey bee, Apis mellifera

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 323-333

  Harrison, Jon F ^a   Fewell, Jennifer H ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africanized honey bee; Apis mellifera; Development; Flight; Foraging; Honey bee metabolic rate; Metabolism; Season; Temperature; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

BODY WEIGHT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXERCISE; FLIGHT; FORAGING; GENETIC STRAIN; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HONEY; HONEYBEE; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PRODUCTIVITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE; THORAX; VELOCITY; WEIGHT BEARING;

APINAE; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 0036802337     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(02)00163-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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