Endothermic heat production in honeybee winter clusters
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Endothermic heat production in honeybee winter clusters.
In order to survive cold northern winters, honeybees crowd tightly together in a winter cluster. Present models of winter cluster thermoregulation consider the insulation by the tightly packed mantle bees as the decisive factor for survival at low temperatures, mostly ignoring the possibility of endothermic heat production. We provide here direct evidence of endothermic heat production by 'shiv...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00082