The familiar European hive bee, Apis mellifera, has long dominated honey bee research. But in the last 15 years, teams in China, Japan, Malaysia, and Thailand began to shift focus to the indigenous Asian honey bees. Benjamin Oldroyd, well known for his work on the genetics and evolution of worker st...

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Main Author:	Oldroyd, Benjamin P. (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2022]
Subjects:	NATURE / Animals / Insects & Spiders Honeybee > Behavior > Asia Honeybee > Conservation > Asia Honeybee > Asia
Online Access:	DE-1046 DE-1043 DE-858 DE-859 DE-860 DE-739 Volltext
Summary:	The familiar European hive bee, Apis mellifera, has long dominated honey bee research. But in the last 15 years, teams in China, Japan, Malaysia, and Thailand began to shift focus to the indigenous Asian honey bees. Benjamin Oldroyd, well known for his work on the genetics and evolution of worker sterility, has teamed with Siriwat Wongsiri, a pioneer of the study of bees in Thailand, to provide a comparative work synthesizing the rapidly expanding Asian honey bee literature. After introducing the species, the authors review evolution and speciation, division of labor, communication, and nest defense. They underscore the pressures colonies face from pathogens, parasites, and predators--including man--and detail the long and amazing history of the honey hunt. This book provides a cornerstone for future investigations on these species, insights into the evolution across species, and a direction for conservation efforts to protect these keystone species of Asia's tropical forests
Item Description:	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (360 pages)
ISBN:	9780674041622
DOI:	10.4159/9780674041622