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Gender Specific Brood Cells in the Solitary Bee Colletes halophilus (Hymenoptera; Colletidae)

We studied the reproductive behaviour of the solitary bee Colletes halophilus based on the variation in cell size, larval food amount and larval sex in relation to the sexual size dimorphism in this bee. Brood cells with female larvae are larger and contain more larval food than cells with males. Oc...

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Autores principales: Rooijakkers, Eveline F., Sommeijer, Marinus J.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2752503/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19789712
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10905-009-9188-x