Ant gardens: Interspecific recognition in parabiotic ant species

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 87-93

  Orivel, Jérôme ^a   Errard, Christine ^b   Dejean, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Ant gardens; Colonial recognition; Cuticular compounds; Parabiosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030977974     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050319     Document Type: Article

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