Intraspecific variation in flight metabolic rate in the bumblebee Bombus impatiens: Repeatability and functional determinants in workers and drones

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 217, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 536-544

  Darveau, Charles A ^a   Billardon, Fannie ^a   Belanger, Kasandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bumblebee; Drone; Enzyme; Flight; Hexokinase; Metabolic rate; Metabolism; Muscle; Repeatability; Trehalase; Wingbeat frequency; Worker

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; HEXOKINASE; TREHALASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BUMBLEBEE; DRONE; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYMOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FLIGHT; FLYING; HISTOLOGY; METABOLIC RATE; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; PHENOTYPE; REPEATABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WINGBEAT FREQUENCY; WORKER;

BUMBLEBEE; DRONE; ENZYME; FLIGHT; HEXOKINASE; METABOLIC RATE; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; REPEATABILITY; TREHALASE; WINGBEAT FREQUENCY; WORKER;

ANIMALS; BEES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84893974420     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.091892     Document Type: Article

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