Resisting majesty: Apis cerana, has lower antennal sensitivity and decreased attraction to queen mandibular pheromone than Apis mellifera.

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Published in Sci Rep on March 15, 2017

Authors

Shihao Dong1,2, Ping Wen1, Qi Zhang2, Xinyu Li2, Ken Tan1,2, James Nieh3

Author Affiliations

1: Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.
2: Eastern Bee Research Institute, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China.
3: Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.

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