Conspecifics as informers and competitors: an experimental study in foraging bumble-bees

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2011-09-22

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2010.2659PMID 21288951PMCID PMC3145184
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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