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Spectral purity, intensity and dominant wavelength: Disparate colour preferences of two Brazilian stingless bee species

Bees use floral colour as a major long distance orientation cue. While it is known for bumblebees and honeybees that dominant wavelength (≙ colour hue), colour contrast and spectral purity (≙ saturation) are crucial for flower detection and discrimination, only little is known about colour preferenc...

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Autores principales: Koethe, Sebastian, Banysch, Sarah, Alves-dos-Santos, Isabel, Lunau, Klaus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6162086/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30265685
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204663