Defensive Behavior of Honey Bees: Organization, Genetics, and Comparisons with Other Bees

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 49, Issue , 2004, Pages 271-298

  Breed, Michael D ^a   Guzmán Novoa, Ernesto ^b   Hunt, Greg J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES FORESTALES   (Mexico)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoidea; Communication; Division of labor; Pheromones; Social insects

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; EUSOCIALITY; HONEYBEE; PHEROMONE; SOCIAL INSECT;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; PHEROMONES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; APIDAE; APINAE; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 1042267935     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.49.061802.123155     Document Type: Review

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