Wax perception in honeybees: Contact is not necessary

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 424-427

  Brockmann, Axel ^a   Groh, Claudia ^a   Fröhlich, Birgit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WAX; ZINC SULFATE;

CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; HONEYBEE; RECOGNITION; WAX;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HONEYBEE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; APIDAE; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0141993507     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-003-0442-3     Document Type: Article

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