A stingless bee (Melipona seminigra) marks food sources with a pheromone from its claw retractor tendons

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 793-804

  Jarau, Stefan ^a,b   Hrncir, Michael ^a   Ayasse, Manfred ^b   Schulz, Claudia ^c   Francke, Wittko ^c   Zucchi, Ronaldo ^d   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

Apidae; Attractant; Food source marking; Hydrocarbons; Hymenoptera; Melipona; Meliponini; Pheromone; Stingless bee; Tendon gland

Indexed keywords

PENTANE; PHEROMONE;

BEE; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; PHEROMONE; SCENT MARKING;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM; EXPERIMENT; EXTRACT; FEMUR; FOOD; LEG; MEIBOMIAN GLAND; MELIPONA SEMINIGRA; NONHUMAN; ODOR; SECRETION; TENDON; TIBIA;

ANIMALS; BEES; BRAZIL; COMPLEX MIXTURES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HYDROCARBONS; PHEROMONES; SCENT GLANDS;

ANIMALIA; APIDAE; APINAE; APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS); HYMENOPTERA; MEIBOMIA; MELIPONA; MELIPONINAE; SCAPTOTRIGONA POSTICA;

EID: 3543045023     PISSN: 00980331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOEC.0000028432.29759.ed     Document Type: Article

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