@article{cao_hyland_malechuk_lewis_schneider_2007, title={The influence of the vibration signal on worker interactions with the nest and nest mates in established and newly founded colonies of the honey bee, Apis mellifera}, volume={54}, ISSN={["1420-9098"]}, DOI={10.1007/s00040-007-0921-1}, number={2}, journal={INSECTES SOCIAUX}, author={Cao, T. T. and Hyland, K. M. and Malechuk, A. and Lewis, L. A. and Schneider, S. S.}, year={2007}, month={May}, pages={144–149} }
 @article{hyland_cao_malechuk_lewis_schneider_2007, title={Vibration signal behaviour and the use of modulatory communication in established and newly founded honeybee colonies}, volume={73}, ISSN={["1095-8282"]}, DOI={10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.10.006}, abstractNote={We investigated the effects of colony condition on the use of modulatory communication in social insects by examining vibration signal behaviour in established and newly founded colonies of the honeybee, Apis mellifera. Compared to the established colonies, the newly founded colonies had smaller population sizes, built more comb, devoted proportionately more comb space to brood rearing and less to food storage, gained weight, and had higher per capita rates of foraging. In conjunction with the different growth and foraging patterns, the newly founded colonies also had higher per capita vibration rates and slightly but significantly greater proportions of workers that produced the signal. Individual vibrators in the newly founded colonies performed signals on slightly but significantly more of the workers they contacted and focused their vibration activity more strongly on less active recipients than did vibrators in the established colonies. Vibrated recipients showed increased task performance compared to nonvibrated controls, suggesting that the signal increased individual labour rates in both colony types. However, the levels of task performance did not differ between newly founded and established colony recipients, suggesting that the degree to which workers responded to the signal was not altered by colony developmental state. Thus, the vibration signal may have helped to adjust worker activity to the resource and labour demands associated with nest founding primarily by activating larger proportions of the less active work force, rather than by increasing the individual work efforts of recipients in the newly founded colonies relative to those in established colonies.}, journal={ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR}, author={Hyland, Kelly M. and Cao, Tuan T. and Malechuk, Alana M. and Lewis, Lee A. and Schneider, Stanley S.}, year={2007}, month={Mar}, pages={541–551} }