Measuring the cost of worker reproduction in honeybees: Work tempo in an 'anarchic' line

Apidologie

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 83-88

  Dampney, Jonathan R ^a   Barron, Andrew B ^a   Oldroyd, Benjamin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anarchy; Apis mellifera; Policing; Worker reproduction; Worker sterility

Indexed keywords

COST; HONEYBEE; REPRODUCTION; STERILITY; WORKER CASTE;

APIDAE; APINAE; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0942278767     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:2003067     Document Type: Article

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