A death pheromone, oleic acid, triggers hygienic behavior in honey bees (Apis mellifera L.)

Eusocial insects live in teeming societies with thousands of their kin. In this crowded environment, workers combat disease by removing or burying their dead or diseased nestmates. For honey bees, we found that hygienic brood-removal behavior is triggered by two odorants – β-ocimene and oleic acid –...

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Veröffentlicht in:Scientific reports 2018-04, Vol.8 (1), p.5719-13, Article 5719
Hauptverfasser: McAfee, Alison, Chapman, Abigail, Iovinella, Immacolata, Gallagher-Kurtzke, Ylonna, Collins, Troy F., Higo, Heather, Madilao, Lufiani L., Pelosi, Paolo, Foster, Leonard J.
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