The Scent of the Waggle Dance

The waggle dance of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) foragers communicates to nest mates the location of a profitable food source. We used solid-phase microextraction and gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry to show that waggle-dancing bees produce and release two alkanes, tricosane and pe...

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Autores principales: Thom, Corinna, Gilley, David C, Hooper, Judith, Esch, Harald E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1994260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17713987
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050228

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1994260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17713987
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050228

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