Colony-level and season-specific variation in cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of individual workers in the ant Formica truncorum

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 58-65

  Nielsen, J ^a   Boomsma, J J ^a   Oldham, N J ^b,c   Petersen, H C ^d   Morgan, E D ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ants; Cuticular hydrocarbons; Gas chromatography; Mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

FORMICA TRUNCORUM; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 0032916133     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000400050113     Document Type: Article

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