Queen-signal modulation of worker pheromonal composition in honeybees

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1552, 2004, Pages 2065-2069

  Katzav Gozansky, Tamar ^a   Boulay, Raphaël ^b   Soroker, Victoria ^c   Hefetz, Abraham ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Dufour's gland; Pheromones; Worker reproduction

Indexed keywords

ESTER; PHEROMONE; SEX PHEROMONE;

HONEYBEE; PHEROMONE; QUEEN; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUFOUR GLAND; EXOCRINE GLAND; HONEYBEE; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WORKER; ANIMAL; BEE; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION;

APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; HYMENOPTERA;

ANIMALS; BEES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; ESTERS; FEMALE; MALE; OVARY; OVIPOSITION; SEX ATTRACTANTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 7944233345     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2839     Document Type: Article

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