Co-evolution-driven cuticular hydrocarbon variation between the slave-making ant Rossomyrmex minuchae and its host Proformica longiseta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Chemoecology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 235-240

  Errard, Christine ^a   Ruano, Francisca ^b   Richard, Freddie Jeanne ^a   Lenoir, Alain ^a   Tinaut, Alberto ^b   Hefetz, Abraham ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Cuticular hydrocarbons; Proformica longiseta; Rossomyrmex minuchae; Social parasitism

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; PROFORMICA LONGISETA; ROSSOMYRMEX MINUCHAE;

EID: 33751220795     PISSN: 09377409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00049-006-0358-4     Document Type: Article

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