Queen movement during colony emigration in the facultatively polygynous ant Pachycondyla obscuricornis

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-39

  Pezon, Antoine ^a   Denis, Damien ^a   Cerdan, Philippe ^b   Valenzuela, Jorge ^c   Fresneau, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b HYDRECO   (France)

^c INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; MONOGYNY; MOVEMENT; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POLYGYNY; QUEEN; RELOCATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PACHYCONDYLA OBSCURICORNIS; RANDOMIZATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANTS; FEMALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

FORMICIDAE; INSECTA; PACHYCONDYLA OBSCURICORNIS;

EID: 12944304179     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-004-0583-z     Document Type: Article

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