Effects of cross-feeding anarchistic and wild type honey bees: Anarchistic workers are not queen-like

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 189-192

  Beekman, Madeleine ^a   Oldroyd, Benjamin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; WORKER CASTE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EGG LAYING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENOTYPE; HONEYBEE; LARVA; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL CLASS; WILD TYPE; WORKER;

ANIMALIA; APINAE; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 0038293037     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-003-0406-7     Document Type: Article

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