Wax combs mediate nestmate recognition by guard honeybees

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 773-779

  D'Ettorre, Patrizia ^a,d   Wenseleers, Tom ^b   Dawson, Jenny ^c   Hutchinson, Stuart ^c   Boswell, Tom ^c   Ratnieks, Francis L W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HONEYBEE; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; OLFACTION;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 33645128682     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.05.014     Document Type: Article

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