Egg marking pheromones of anarchistic worker honeybees (Apis mellifera)
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Stephen J. Martin, Nicolas Châline, Benjamin P. Oldroyd, Graeme R. Jones, and Francis L. W. Ratnieks Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom, School of Biological Sciences A12, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia, and Chemical Ecology Group, School of Chemistry and Physics, Lennard-Jones Laboratories, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, United Kingdom
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