No intracolonial nepotism during colony fissioning in honey bees

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1674, 2009, Pages 3895-3900

  Rangel, Juliana ^a   Mattila, Heather R ^b   Seeley, Thomas D ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Genetic relatedness; Honeybee; Intracolonial nepotism; Kin recognition; Queen rearing; Swarming

Indexed keywords

GENETIC STRUCTURE; HONEYBEE; KIN RECOGNITION; NEPOTISM; RELATEDNESS; SWARMING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HONEYBEE; INSECT SWARM; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; NEPOTISM; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PATERNITY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUEEN (INSECT); WORKER (INSECT); ANIMAL; BEE; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 70449709552     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1072     Document Type: Article

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