Informational conflicts created by the waggle dance

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1640, 2008, Pages 1321-1327

  Grüter, Christoph ^a,b   Balbuena, M Sol ^a   Farina, Walter M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Communication; Honeybee; Private information; Social information; Waggle dance

Indexed keywords

FLOWER; HONEYBEE; ODOR; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SCENT MARKING;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD; FORAGER; HONEYBEE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAGGLE DANCE;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 42549126458     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0186     Document Type: Article

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