Intra- and interspecific brood recognition in pure and mixed-species honeybee colonies, Apis cerana and A.mellifera

Apidologie

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 184-191

  Tan, Ken ^a,b   Yang, Mingxian ^b,c   Radloff, Sarah E ^c   Yu, Yushen ^d   Pirk, Christian W W ^e   Hepburn, H Randall ^b,c  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b YUNNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL PLANTS   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; HONEYBEE; RECOGNITION; TESTING METHOD;

APIS CERANA; APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 67650433776     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: 12979678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido/2009003     Document Type: Article

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