Honeybees Dufour's gland - Idiosyncrasy of a new queen signal

Apidologie

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 525-537

  Katzav Gozansky, Tamar ^a   Soroker, Victoria ^b   Hefetz, Abraham ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Caste specificity; Dufour's gland; Honeybee, queen signal; Retinue behavior

Indexed keywords

HONEYBEE;

APIS; APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 0036860730     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:2002035     Document Type: Review

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