Nestmate recognition and temporal modulation in the patterns of cuticular hydrocarbons in natural colonies of Japanese carpenter ant Camponotus japonicus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Journal of Ethology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 57-65

  Liu, Zhibin ^a,b   Yamane, Sôichi ^a   Wang, Qingchuan ^b   Yamamoto, Hiroshi ^a  

^a IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMPONOTUS JAPONICUS;

EID: 0032461420     PISSN: 02890771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02769283     Document Type: Article

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