Morphological and ultrastructural changes in the mucus glands of Apis mellifera drones during pupal development and sexual maturation

Apidologie

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 245-254

  Moors, Lien ^a   Spaas, Olivier ^a   Koeniger, Gudrun ^b   Billen, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Institut fur Bienenkunde   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Drone; Morphology; Mucus gland

Indexed keywords

MATURATION; MORPHOLOGY;

APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 22044435251     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:2005016     Document Type: Article

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