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Apidologie

Vol. 36 No. 2 (April-June 2005)

Special Issue: "the neglected gender - males in bees"

Editorial
• The neglected gender - males in bees     p. 143
  Gudrun Koeniger
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• Male mating behaviour and mating systems of bees: an overview     p. 145
  Robert John Paxton
  Abstract | PDF file (156 KB) | References



• The evolutionary significance of long copulation duration in bumble bees     p. 157
  Mark J.F. Brown and Boris Baer
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• The males of Melipona and other stingless bees, and their mothers     p. 169
  Hayo H.W. Velthuis, Dirk Koedam and Vera L. Imperatriz-Fonseca
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• Sexual selection in Apis bees     p. 187
  Boris Baer
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• Paternity skew in seven species of honeybees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Apis)     p. 201
  Helge Schlüns, Robin F.A. Moritz, H. Michael G. Lattorff and Gudrun Koeniger
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• Drone competition at drone congregation areas in four Apis species     p. 211
  Nikolaus Koeniger, Gudrun Koeniger, Michael Gries and Salim Tingek
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• Using drones for estimating colony number by microsatellite DNA analyses of haploid males in Apis     p. 223
  F. Bernhard Kraus, Nikolaus Koeniger, Salim Tingek and Robin F.A. Moritz
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• She's my girl - male accessory gland products and their function in the reproductive biology of social bees     p. 231
  Nínive Aguiar Colonello and Klaus Hartfelder
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• Morphological and ultrastructural changes in the mucus glands of Apis mellifera drones during pupal development and sexual maturation     p. 245
  Lien Moors, Olivier Spaas, Gudrun Koeniger and Johan Billen
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• Differences in drone and worker physiology in honeybees (Apis mellifera)     p. 255
  Norbert Hrassnigg and Karl Crailsheim
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• Variance in spermatozoa number among Apis dorsata drones and among Apis mellifera drones     p. 279
  Gudrun Koeniger, Nikolaus Koeniger, Salim Tingek and Mananya Phiancharoen
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