Effects of insemination quantity on honey bee queen physiology

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Richard, Freddie Jeanne ^a   Tarpy, David R ^a   Grozinger, Christina M ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRONE; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HONEYBEE; HORMONAL REGULATION; INSECT SOCIETY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATE CHOICE; MATING; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHOTOTAXIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUEEN (INSECT); SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPERM; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; WORKER (INSECT); ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BEE; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPERMATOZOON;

APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSEMINATION; MALE; PHEROMONES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPERMATOZOA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 42049085049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000980     Document Type: Article

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