Cape honeybees, Apis mellifera capensis, police worker-laid eggs despite the absence of relatedness benefits

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 347-352

  Pirk, C W W ^a,b   Neumann, P ^c   Ratnieks, F L W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Egg removal; Honeybee; Thelytoky; Worker policing; Worker reproduction

Indexed keywords

EGG REJECTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; WORKER CASTE;

APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037647461     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/14.3.347     Document Type: Article

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