Lifetime performance in foraging honeybees: Behaviour and physiology

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 209, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 3828-3836

  Schippers, M P ^a   Dukas, R ^a   Smith, R W ^a   Wang, J ^a   Smolen, K ^a,b   McClelland, G B ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Flight; Foraging; Honeybee; Insect; Metabolic enzyme; Muscle; Performance; Troponin T. superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TROPONIN T;

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BEE; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLYING; GENETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUSCLE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BASE SEQUENCE; BEES; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FRUCTOSE-BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLES; ONTARIO; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TROPONIN T;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; INSECTA;

EID: 33750581322     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02450     Document Type: Article

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