Ability of bumblebees to discriminate differences in the shape of artificial flowers of Primula sieboldii (Primulaceae)

Annals of Botany

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1175-1182

  Yoshioka, Yosuke ^a   Ohashi, Kazuharu ^a   Konuma, Akihiro ^b   Iwata, Hiroyoshi ^c   Ohsawa, Ryo ^a   Ninomiya, Seishi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bumblebee; Computer graphics; Elliptic Fourier descriptors; Flower corolla shape; Primula sieboldii; Principal components analysis; Visual cue

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; BEE; COMPUTER; FLOWER; MORPHOLOGY; POLLINATOR; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; VISUAL CUE;

HEXAPODA; PRIMULA SIEBOLDII; PRIMULACEAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; FLOWER; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMULACEAE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BEES; FLOWERS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; PRIMULA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547813727     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcm059     Document Type: Article

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