Reversion in honeybee, Apis mellifera, workers with different life expectancies

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 247-253

  Kuszewska, Karolina ^a   Woyciechowski, Michal ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Behavioural reversion; Division of labour; Division of risk; Honeybee; Life expectancy

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COLONY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUSOCIALITY; HONEYBEE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INJURY; LABOR DIVISION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; WORKER CASTE;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84872317752     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.10.033     Document Type: Article

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