Intra-dance variation among waggle runs and the design of efficient protocols for honey bee dance decoding

Biology Open

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 467-472

  Couvillon, Margaret J ^a   Pearce, Fiona C Riddell ^a   Harris Jones, Elisabeth L ^a   Kuepfer, Amanda M ^a   Mackenzie Smith, Samantha J ^a   Rozario, Laura A ^a   Schürch, Roger ^a   Ratnieks, Francis L W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal communication; Apis mellifera; Honey bee; Social insect recruitment; Waggle dance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964867164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20466390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/bio.20121099     Document Type: Article

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