Honeybee workers use cues other than egg viability for policing

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 129-132

  Beekman, Madeleine ^a   Oldroyd, Benjamin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Egg marking; Egg viability; Inclusive fitness; Kin selection; Worker policing

Indexed keywords

HONEYBEE; KIN SELECTION; MARKING METHOD; WORKER POLICING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL SOCIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; HONEYBEE; KIN SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

APIS MELLIFERA; INSECTA;

EID: 25444457298     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0294     Document Type: Article

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