The role of the queen mandibular gland pheromone in honeybees (Apis mellifera): Honest signal or suppressive agent?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1523-1531

  Strauss, Katrin ^a   Scharpenberg, Holger ^a   Crewe, Robin M ^b   Glahn, Felix ^a   Foth, Heidi ^a   Moritz, Robin F A ^a,b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Dominance; Fecundity; Honeybee; Pheromone; Queen worker conflict

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DOMINANCE; FECUNDITY; HONEST SIGNALING; HONEYBEE; INHIBITION; LABOR DIVISION; PHEROMONE; QUEEN; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; SECRETION; SEMIOCHEMICAL;

APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 44949236011     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-008-0581-9     Document Type: Article

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