She's my girl - Male accessory gland products and their function in the reproductive biology of social bees

Apidologie

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 231-244

  Colonello, Nínive Aguiar ^a   Hartfelder, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Apis; Bombus; Bumblebee; Honeybee; Mating sign; Meliponini; Reproductive tract

Indexed keywords

REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY;

APINAE; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS (SUBGENUS); HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MELIPONINAE; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 22044434552     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:2005012     Document Type: Review

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