Unlike nectar foragers, honeybee drones (Apis mellifera) are not able to utilize starch as fuel for flight

Apidologie

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 547-557

  Hrassnigg, Norbert ^a   Brodschneider, Robert ^a   Fleischmann, Paul H ^a   Crailsheim, Karl ^a  

^a Inst Zool an Karl Franzens Univ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Amylase; Amylose; Apis mellifera; Digestion; Enzyme; Flight metabolism

Indexed keywords

DIGESTION;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 29244443383     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: 12979678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:2005042     Document Type: Article

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