Morphometric identification of queens, workers, intermediates in in vitro reared honey bees (Apis mellifera)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  De Souza, Daiana A ^a   Wang, Ying ^b   Kaftanoglu, Osman ^b   De Jong, David ^a   Amdam, Gro V ^b,c   Gonçalves, Lionel S ^a,d   Francoy, Tiago M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DO SEMI ÁRIDO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CASTE CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; FEMALE; GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS; HEAD; IN VITRO REARING; INSECT CASTE; INTERCASTE CLASSIFICATION; INTERMEDIATE INSECT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MANDIBLE; METATARSAL BONE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OVARIOLE NUMBER; PHENOTYPE; QUEEN (INSECT); REARING; SPERMATHECA; TRADITIONAL MORPHOMETRICS; WORKER (INSECT); ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BEE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HONEY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

ANIMALS; BEES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HONEY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84928554077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123663     Document Type: Article

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