Swarming generates rebel workers in honeybees

Current Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 707-711

  Woyciechowski, Michal ^a   Kuszewska, Karolina ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HYPOPHARYNX; MALE; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEES; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HYPOPHARYNX; MALE; OVARY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84860283159     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.02.063     Document Type: Article

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