Reproductive competition in the bumble-bee Bombus terrestris: Do workers advertise sterility?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1660, 2009, Pages 1295-1304

  Amsalem, Etya ^a   Twele, Robert ^b   Francke, Wittko ^b   Hefetz, Abraham ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bombus terrestris; Dufour gland; Fertility signals; Reproduction; Workers' sterility

Indexed keywords

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; ALKENE DERIVATIVE; OCTYL ESTER DERIVATIVE; OCTYL HEXADECANOATE; OCTYL OLEATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PHEROMONE;

ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON; BEE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; OVIPOSITION; QUEEN; SECRETION; SEX PHEROMONE; SOCIAL INSECT; STERILITY; WORKER CASTE;

ARTICLE; BUMBLEBEE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; FERTILITY; INSECT SOCIETY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEE; FEMALE; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; OVARY; PHEROMONES; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 64849089009     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1688     Document Type: Article

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