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SUBMITTER: Couvillon MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2464680 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biology letters 20070601 3
In recognition, discriminators use sensory information to make decisions. For example, honeybee (Apis mellifera) entrance guards discriminate between nest-mates and intruders by comparing their odours with a template of the colony odour. Comb wax plays a major role in honeybee recognition. We measured the rejection rates of nest-mate and non-nest-mate worker bees by entrance guards before and after a unidirectional transfer of wax comb from a 'comb donor' hive to a 'comb receiver' hive. Our resu ...[more]