Bees eavesdrop upon informative and persistent signal compounds in alarm pheromones

Pollinators such as bees provide a critical ecosystem service that can be impaired by information about predation. We provide the first evidence for olfactory eavesdropping and avoidance of heterospecific alarm signals, alarm pheromones, at food sources in bees. We predicted that foragers could eave...

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Autores principales: Wang, Zhengwei, Wen, Ping, Qu, Yufeng, Dong, Shihao, Li, Jianjun, Tan, Ken, Nieh, James C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4860575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27157595
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep25693

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4860575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27157595
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep25693

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