Sex and Caste-Specific Variation in Compound Eye Morphology of Five Honeybee Species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Streinzer, Martin ^a,b   Brockmann, Axel ^c   Nagaraja, Narayanappa ^d   Spaethe, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^d BANGALORE UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; APIS; APIS ANDRENIFORMIS; APIS CERANA; APIS DORSATA; APIS FLOREA; APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; COMPOUND EYE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRONE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HONEYBEE; INSECT CASTE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LENS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OMMATIDIA; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHOTOREACTIVITY; QUEEN (INSECT); SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WORKER (INSECT);

ANIMALS; BEES; BODY SIZE; COMPOUND EYE, ARTHROPOD; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84874542595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057702     Document Type: Article

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