Pheromone-sensitive glomeruli in the primary olfactory centre of ants

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1598, 2006, Pages 2219-2225

  Yamagata, Nobuhiro ^a   Nishino, Hiroshi ^b   Mizunami, Makoto ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alarm pheromone; Antennal lobe; Olfactory centre; Pheromone communication; Social insects

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ANT; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; OLFACTORY CUE; PHEROMONE; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANT; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; ORGANISM COLONY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING;

APOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA;

EID: 33748262430     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3565     Document Type: Article

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