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A Novel Behavioral Assay to Investigate Gustatory Responses of Individual, Freely-moving Bumble Bees (Bombus terrestris)

Generalist pollinators like the buff-tailed bumble bee, Bombus terrestris, encounter both nutrients and toxins in the floral nectar they collect from flowering plants. Only a few studies have described the gustatory responses of bees toward toxins in food, and these experiments have mainly used the...

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Autores principales: Ma, Carolyn, Kessler, Sébastien, Simpson, Alexander, Wright, Geraldine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MyJove Corporation 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5304935/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27500630
http://dx.doi.org/10.3791/54233