Within-nest temporal polyethism in the honey bee
โ Scribed by Brian R. Johnson
- Book ID
- 105972770
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 166 KB
- Volume
- 62
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-5443
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sion of labor in honey bees, Apis mellifera, explains variation in the frequency at which workers perform specific tasks as the result of differences in age and environment. Although well documented, the model is incomplete because it fails to take genotypic variability among workers into account. W