Nestmate recognition in the unicolonial ant Formica paralugubris

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 15-19

  Chapuisat, Michel ^a   Bernasconi, Christian ^a   Hoehn, Sophie ^a,b   Reuter, Max ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggression; Discrimination; Kin recognition; Unicoloniality

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANT; KIN RECOGNITION; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; TROPHALLAXIS;

FORMICA; FORMICA PARALUGUBRIS; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 12244282689     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arh128     Document Type: Article

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