Actual reproductive conflict during emergency queen rearing in Apis florea

Apidologie

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 206-210

  Nanork, Piyamas ^a   Low, Petah A ^b   Proft, Kirstin M ^b   Lim, Julianne ^b   Deowanish, Sureerat ^c   Wongsiri, Siriwat ^d   Oldroyd, Benjamin P ^b  

^a MAHASARAKHAM UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d MAE FAH LUANG UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Apis florea; DNA microsatellites; Emergency queen rearing; Nepotism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COLONY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENETIC MARKER; HONEYBEE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NEPOTISM; PATERNITY; QUEEN; REARING; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

APIS FLOREA; APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 80054693988     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: 12979678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido/2010052     Document Type: Article

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