Body-Surface Compounds in Buckfast and Caucasian Honey Bee Workers (Apis Mellifera)

Body-surface chemical compounds were studied in 1-day-old nest workers and foragers both in Buckfast and Caucasian bees. The workers of these two age-castes were sampled twice in each of two consecutive years. Body-surface lipids were determined by means of gas chromatography, with a GCQ mass spectr...

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Main Authors: Strachecka Aneta, Borsuk Grzegorz, Paleolog Jerzy, Olszewski Krzysztof, Bajda Milena, Chobotow Jacek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2014-06-01
Series:Journal of Apicultural Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/jas-2014-0001