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Do honeybees (Apis mellifera) differentiate between different pollen types?

Bees receive nectar and pollen as reward for pollinating plants. Pollen of different plant species varies widely in nutritional composition. In order to select pollen of appropriate nutritional quality, bees would benefit if they could distinguish different pollen types. Whether they rely on visual,...

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Autores principales: Ruedenauer, Fabian A., Wöhrle, Christine, Spaethe, Johannes, Leonhardt, Sara D.
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/PMC6221266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30403699
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205821