Learning of colonial odor in the ant Cataglyphis niger (Hymenoptera; Formicidae)

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 87-94

  Nowbahari, Elise ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HABITUATION; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERINATAL PERIOD;

EID: 34447289389     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193043     Document Type: Article

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