A thermoregulatory center in hornets: IR photography

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 321-328

  Plotkin, Marian ^a   Ermakov, Natalya Y ^a   Volynchik, Stanislav ^a   Barkay, Zahava ^a   Bergman, David J ^a   Ishay, Jacob S ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hornets; Social wasps; Temperature cascade; Thermo and photovoltaic conversion; Thermoregulatory center

Indexed keywords

BODY PARTS; HORNET; HYMENOPTERA; LOWS-TEMPERATURES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERSION; SOCIAL WASP; TEMPERATURE CASCADE; THERMO- AND PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERSION; THERMOREGULATORY; THERMOREGULATORY CENTER;

PHOTOGRAPHY;

AIR CONDITIONING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEMOLYMPH; HYMENOPTERA; INFRARED RADIATION; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOREGULATION; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; WASP;

HYMENOPTERA; VESPA ORIENTALIS; VESPIDAE; VESPINAE;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; INFRARED RAYS; PHOTOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE; WASPS;

EID: 33645269266     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20257     Document Type: Article

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