Effect of the queen on worker reproduction and new queen production in the bumble bee Bombus terrestris

Apidologie

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 171-180

  Lopez Vaamonde, Carlos ^a,b   Brown, Ruth M ^a   Lucas, Eric R ^a,c   Pereboom, Jeffrey J M ^a,d   Jordan, William C ^a   Bourke, Andrew F G ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b Inst Natl de la Rech Agronom   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bombus; Caste determination; Pheromone; Queen signal; Worker reproduction

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEE; COLONY; INHIBITION; LARVA; PHEROMONE; QUEEN; REPRODUCTION; SIGNALING; WAX;

BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS TERRESTRIS;

EID: 34547457960     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: 12979678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:2006070     Document Type: Article

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