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Foragers of sympatric Asian honey bee species intercept competitor signals by avoiding benzyl acetate from Apis cerana alarm pheromone

While foraging, animals can form inter- and intraspecific social signalling networks to avoid similar predators. We report here that foragers of different native Asian honey bee species can detect and use a specialized alarm pheromone component, benzyl acetate (BA), to avoid danger. We analysed the...

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Autores principales: Wen, Ping, Cheng, Yanan, Qu, Yufeng, Zhang, Hongxia, Li, Jianjun, Bell, Heather, Tan, Ken, Nieh, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5532208/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28751766
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03806-6