Morphological and physiological idiosyncrasies lead to interindividual variation in flight metabolic rate in worker bumblebees (bombus impatiens)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 656-670

  Skandalis, Dimitri A ^a   Darveau, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEE; BIOENERGETICS; BODY SIZE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; METABOLISM; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

BOMBUS IMPATIENS; IMPATIENS;

HEXOKINASE; TREHALASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BIOMECHANICS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYMOLOGY; FLYING; FORELIMB; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BEES; BIOMECHANICS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HEXOKINASE; MUSCLES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TREHALASE; WING;

EID: 84870152047     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/665568     Document Type: Article

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