A right antenna for social behaviour in honeybees

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Rogers, Lesley J ^a   Rigosi, Elisa ^b,c   Frasnelli, Elisa ^d   Vallortigara, Giorgio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^d KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HUMANS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84889093666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02045     Document Type: Article

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