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E-β-Ocimene, a Volatile Brood Pheromone Involved in Social Regulation in the Honey Bee Colony (Apis mellifera)

BACKGROUND: In honey bee colony, the brood is able to manipulate and chemically control the workers in order to sustain their own development. A brood ester pheromone produced primarily by old larvae (4 and 5 days old larvae) was first identified as acting as a contact pheromone with specific effect...

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Autores principales: Maisonnasse, Alban, Lenoir, Jean-Christophe, Beslay, Dominique, Crauser, Didier, Le Conte, Yves
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2958837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21042405
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013531