ReviewJournal of chemical ecology2017
Chemical Ecology of Stingless Bees.
Review in Journal of chemical ecology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.
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24 citing papers in PubMed.
- Distinct colony niches shape associated microbiotas in Neotropical stingless bees.Genetics and molecular biology · 2026Article
- Functional diversity of Brazilian bees: revealing the unique patterns of the Neotropics.Oecologia · 2025Article
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- Volatile Organic Compounds Release Under Threat in Bumblebees: Chemical Identification and Antennal Detection.Journal of chemical ecology · 2025Article
- Chemical Ecology and Management of the Small Hive Beetle, Aethina tumida (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae).Journal of chemical ecology · 2025Review
- Cuticular hydrocarbon profiles reveal geographic chemotypes in stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Meliponini).Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Nutrients or resin? - The relationship between resin and food foraging in stingless bees.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Distinct fungal microbiomes of two Thai commercial stingless bee species,Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2024Article
- Contrasting patterns of foraging behavior in neotropical stingless bees using pollen and honey metabarcoding.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Bee Species, Botanical Sources and the Chemical Composition of Propolis from Yucatan, Mexico.Journal of chemical ecology · 2023Article
- Impact of genus (Current research in food science · 2023Article
- A review of stingless bees' bioactivity in different parts of the world.Journal of medicine and life · 2023Review
- Floral attractants in the black orchid Brasiliorchis schunkeana (Orchidaceae, Maxillariinae): clues for presumed sapromyophily and potential antimicrobial activity.BMC plant biology · 2022Article
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- Sympatric cleptobiotic stingless bees have species-specific cuticular profiles that resemble their hosts.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Resin Use by Stingless Bees: A Review.Insects · 2021Review
- Southeast Asian clearwing moths buzz like their model bees.Frontiers in zoology · 2021Article
- A Preliminary Study of Chemical Profiles of Honey, Cerumen, and Propolis of the African Stingless BeeFoods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Guarding Vibrations-Insects · 2021Article
- Temporal Response of Foragers and Guards of Two Stingless Bee Species to Cephalic Compounds of the Robber Bee Lestrimelitta niitkib (Ayala) (Hymenoptera, Apidae).Neotropical entomology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae: Meliponini) represent a highly diverse group of social bees confined to the world's tropics and subtropics. They show a striking diversity of structural and behavioral adaptations and are important pollinators of tropical plants. Despite their diversity and functional importance, their ecology, and especially chemical ecology, has received relatively little attention, particularly compared to their relative the honeybee, Apis mellifera. Here, I review various aspects of the chemical ecology of stingless bees, from communication over resource allocation to defense. I list examples in which functions of specific compounds (or compound groups) have been demonstrated by behavioral experiments, and show that many aspects (e.g., queen-worker interactions, host-parasite interactions, neuronal processing etc.) remain little studied. This review further reveals that the vast majority of studies on the chemical ecology of stingless bees have been conducted in the New World, whereas studies on Old World stingless bees are still comparatively rare. Given the diversity of species, behaviors and, apparently, chemical compounds used, I suggest that stingless bees provide an ideal subject for studying how functional context and the need for species specificity may interact to shape pheromone diversification in social insects.
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