Sperm use economy of honeybee (Apis mellifera) queens

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 2877-2885

  Baer, Boris ^a   Collins, Jason ^a   Maalaps, Kristiina ^a   den Boer, Susanne P A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

DAPI; Egg fertilization; Fertility; Sperm storage; Spermatheca

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961828712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2075     Document Type: Article

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