Spitting out information: Trigona bees deposit saliva to signal resource locations

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1611, 2007, Pages 895-899

  Schorkopf, Dirk Louis P ^a   Jarau, Stefan ^b   Francke, Wittko ^c   Twele, Robert ^c   Zucchi, Ronaldo ^d   Hrncir, Michael ^a   Schmidt, Veronika M ^a   Ayasse, Manfred ^b   Barth, Friedrich G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Communication; Foraging; Salivary glands; Stingless bees; Trail pheromone

Indexed keywords

OCTANOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; OCTYLOCTANOATE; PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; OCTYL OCTANOATE;

BEE; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PHEROMONE; RESOURCE USE; SALIVA; SCENT MARKING; SIGNALING;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOASSAY; EXTRACTION; FORAGING; HORMONE DETERMINATION; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SALIVARY GLAND; SIGNAL DETECTION; STINGLESS BEE; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; TRIGONA SPINIPES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; BEE; CHEMISTRY; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SALIVA;

APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; MELIPONINAE; TRIGONA; TRIGONA SPINIPES;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEES; OCTANOIC ACIDS; PHEROMONES; SALIVA;

EID: 34247231636     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3766     Document Type: Article

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