Development of a new method to track multiple honey bees with complex behaviors on a flat laboratory arena

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kimura, Toshifumi ^a   Ohashi, Mizue ^a   Crailsheim, Karl ^b   Schmickl, Thomas ^b   Okada, Ryuichi ^c   Radspieler, Gerald ^b   Ikeno, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^b Inst Zool an Karl Franzens Univ   (Austria)

^c TOKUSHIMA BUNRI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BODY POSITION; BODY SIZE; CENTER OF MASS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHOLOGY; HONEYBEE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LABORATORY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BEE; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE;

EID: 84922262671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084656     Document Type: Article

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