Innate attraction supplants experience during host plant selection in an obligate plant-ant

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 181-187

  Djieto Lordon, C ^a   Dejean, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Individual experience; Innate attraction; Nest plant selection; Tetreponera aethiops

Indexed keywords

ANT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HOST SELECTION; INNATE BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; LARVA; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PLANT;

BARTERIA FISTULOSA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; TETRAPONERA AETHIOPS;

EID: 0032808553     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(99)00032-7     Document Type: Article

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