Honeybee colonies achieve fitness through dancing

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6910, 2002, Pages 920-922

  Sherman, Gavin ^a   Visscher, P Kirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; NUTRITION; ODORS;

SYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION;

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMMUNICATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; HONEYBEE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DANCING; FORAGING; HONEYBEE; LANGUAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEES; CALIFORNIA; DANCING; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FLOWERS; FOOD; GRAVITATION; LIGHTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ODORS; SEASONS; SUNLIGHT;

ANIMALIA; APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; HYMENOPTERA; UNIDENTIFIED AGENTS;

EID: 0037206860     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01127     Document Type: Article

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