Chemistry of the postpharyngeal gland secretion and its implication for the phylogeny of Iberian Cataglyphis species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Chemoecology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 163-171

  Dahbi, Abdallah ^a   Lenoir, Alain ^b   Tinaut, Alberto ^c   Taghizadeh, Timo ^d   Francke, Wittko ^d   Hefetz, Abraham ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cataglyphis; Chemotaxonomy; Hydrocarbons; Hymenoptera; Phylogeny; Postpharyngeal gland

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000481863     PISSN: 09377409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01266308     Document Type: Article

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