What currency do bumble bees maximize?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Charlton, Nicholas L ^a   Houston, Alasdair I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BUMBLEBEE; ENERGY; FLIGHT; FLOWER; FLYING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INFLORESCENCE; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; BEE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENERGY METABOLISM; METABOLISM;

APIS MELLIFERA; BOMBUS (GENUS);

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77957879007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012186     Document Type: Article

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