Tree resin composition, collection behavior and selective filters shape chemical profiles of tropical bees (apidae: Meliponini)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Leonhardt, Sara D ^a   Schmitt, Thomas ^b   Blüthgen, Nico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMONE DERIVATIVE; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; RESIN; SESQUITERPENE; TERPENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PLANT RESIN; TERPENE;

ARTICLE; BEE; BODY SURFACE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL DIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HYMENOPTERA; MICROORGANISM; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STINGLESS BEE; TETRAGONULA MELANOCEPHALA; TREE; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BORNEO; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

APIDAE; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA; MELIPONINAE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEES; BORNEO; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; RESINS, PLANT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TERPENES; TREES;

EID: 79961198738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023445     Document Type: Article

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