New insights into honey bee (Apis mellifera) pheromone communication. Is the queen mandibular pheromone alone in colony regulation?

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Maisonnasse, Alban ^a   Alaux, Cédric ^a   Beslay, Dominique ^a   Crauser, Didier ^a   Gines, Christian ^b   Plettner, Erika ^c   Le Conte, Yves ^a  

^a Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale   (France)

^b UMR A 408 INRA University of Avignon   (France)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77953632697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-7-18     Document Type: Article

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