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Comb wax mediates the acquisition of nest-mate recognition cues in honey bees

Honey bees, Apis mellifera, acquire nest-mate recognition cues from wax, the predominant material used in nest construction. Exposure of a newly emerged worker bee to wax-comb substrate significantly reduced the acceptability of that worker to sister bees. Cues acquired from the comb provided colony...

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Hauptverfasser: Breed, Michael D., Williams, Kristina R., Fewell, Jennifer H.
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 1988
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC282542/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16593995
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