Drones as sons of drones in Apis mellifera
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Aversive conditioning in honey bees (Apis mellifera anatolica): a comparison of drones and workers.
Honey bees provide a model system to elucidate the relationship between sociality and complex behaviors within the same species, as females (workers) are highly social and males (drones) are more solitary. We report on aversive learning studies in drone and worker honey bees (Apis mellifera anatolica) in escape, punishment and discriminative punishment situations. In all three experiments, a ne...
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عنوان ژورنال: Apidologie
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0044-8435
DOI: 10.1051/apido:19890503