Stingless Bees use terpenes as olfactory cues to find resin sources

Chemical Senses

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 603-611

  Leonhardt, S D ^a   Zeilhofer, S ^b   Bluthgen N ^a   Schmitt, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Olfactory cues; Resin; Stingless bees; Terpenes

Indexed keywords

RESIN; SESQUITERPENE; TERPENE DERIVATIVE;

AGATHIS BORNEENSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BORNEO; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELLING; STINGLESS BEE;

ANIMALS; BEES; BORNEO; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; RESINS, PLANT; TERPENES;

APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; MELIPONINAE;

EID: 77955872455     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjq058     Document Type: Article

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