A non-policing honey bee colony (Apis mellifera capensis)

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 479-482

  Beekman, Madeleine ^a,b   Good, Gregory ^b   Allsopp, Mike H ^c   Radloff, Sarah ^d   Pirk, Chris W ^d   Ratnieks, Francis L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c PLANT PROTECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^d RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

HONEYBEE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HONEYBEE; HYBRIDIZATION; MATING; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PARTHENOGENESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; THELYTOKY; WORKER;

ANIMALS; BEES; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; OVIPOSITION; PARTHENOGENESIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 0036809814     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-002-0365-4     Document Type: Article

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