Africanized honeybees are slower learners than their European counterparts

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 153-160

  Couvillon, Margaret J ^a,b   Degrandi Hoffman, Gloria ^c   Gronenberg, Wulfila ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c CARL HAYDEN BEE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Africanized honeybees; Apis mellifera; Associative learning; Proboscis extension response

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; FITNESS; HONEYBEE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LEARNING; MEMORY; ODOR; RANGE EXPANSION;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; COGNITION; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEES; COGNITION; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; ODORS; REFLEX; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

APIS MELLIFERA; APIS MELLIFERA LIGUSTICA; APIS MELLIFERA SCUTELLATA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77949424530     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-009-0621-y     Document Type: Article

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