Apidologie

Vol. 40 No. 4 (July-August 2009)

• Small hive beetle, Aethina tumida, as a potential biological vector of honeybee viruses     p. 419
  Michael Eyer, Yan Ping Chen, Marc Oliver Schäfer, Jeff Pettis and Peter Neumann
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• Nest density, genetic structure, and triploid workers in exotic Bombus terrestris populations colonized Japan     p. 429
  Teruyoshi Nagamitsu and Hiroki Yamagishi
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• Flight performance of artificially reared honeybees (Apis mellifera)     p. 441
  Robert Brodschneider, Ulrike Riessberger-Gallé and Karl Crailsheim
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• The impacts of an invasive alien plant and its removal on native bees     p. 450
  Caroline Marijke Nienhuis, Anke Christiane Dietzsch and Jane Catherine Stout
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• Comparisons of the queen volatile compounds of instrumentally inseminated versus naturally mated honey bee (Apis mellifera) queens     p. 464
  Ming Hua Huang, Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman and Blaise LeBlanc
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• Long distance foraging and recruitment by a stingless bee, Melipona mandacaia     p. 472
  Brunno Kuhn-Neto, Felipe A.L. Contrera, Marina S. Castro and James C. Nieh
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• Differential gene expression profiling in mucus glands of honey bee (Apis mellifera) drones during sexual maturation     p. 481
  Nínive Aguiar Colonello-Frattini and Klaus Hartfelder
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• Virgin queen execution in the stingless bee Melipona beecheii: The sign stimulus for worker attacks     p. 496
  Stefan Jarau, Johan W. Van Veen, Ingrid Aguilar and Manfred Ayasse
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• Apis florea in Jordan: source of the founder population     p. 508
  Nizar Haddad, Stefan Fuchs, H. Randall Hepburn and Sarah E. Radloff
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• A scientific note on a genetically-determined color morph of the dwarf honey bee, Apis andreniformis     p. 513
  Jessica S. Higgs, Wandee Wattanachaiyingcharoen and Benjamin P. Oldroyd
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