Nest- and colony-mate recognition in polydomous colonies of meat ants (Iridomyrmex purpureus)

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 309-314

  Van Wilgenburg, E ^a   Ryan, D ^b   Morrison, P ^b   Marriott, P J ^b   Elgar, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; HYDROCARBON;

AGGRESSION; ANT; MATE RECOGNITION; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; SOCIAL INSECT; WORKER CASTE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INSECT; INSECT SOCIETY; MATING; NESTING; NONHUMAN; ODOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; HYDROCARBONS; MEAT; NESTING BEHAVIOR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; IRIDOMYRMEX PURPUREUS;

EID: 33745441069     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-006-0109-y     Document Type: Article

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