Camponotus fellah colony integration: Worker individuality necessitates frequent hydrocarbon exchanges

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1127-1133

  Boulay, Raphael ^a   Hefetz, Abraham ^b   Soroker, Victoria ^b   Lenoir, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY; HYDROCARBON; ODOR;

CAMPONOTUS FELLAH;

EID: 0033858907     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2000.1408     Document Type: Article

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