Desert ants do not acquire and use a three-dimensional global vector

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Grah, Gunnar ^a   Wehner, Rüdiger ^b   Ronacher, Bernhard ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CATAGLYPHIS; CATAGLYPHIS FORTIS; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 34248586970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-4-12     Document Type: Article

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