%0 Journal Article %T Genetic variability of behaviorin Melipona quadrifasciata(Hymenoptera: Meliponinae) %A Waldschmidt %A Ana Maria %A Campos %A L¨²cio Ant£¿nio Oliveira %A Marco Jr. %A Paulo De %J Brazilian Journal of Genetics %D 1997 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0100-84551997000400007 %X observation colonies containing only young workers from 10 matrix colonies were set up to investigate the genetic aspects involved in task division in melipona quadrifasciata. wide variation among origins was observed for all behaviors analyzed, but these differences were significant only for brood cell construction and propolis preparation %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0100-84551997000400007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en