Prior experience with eggs laid by non-nestmate queens induces egg acceptance errors in ant workers

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 223-228

  Helanterä, Heikki ^a   Martin, Stephen J ^a   Ratnieks, Francis L W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acceptance threshold; Formica fusca; Nestmate recognition; Recognition template; Social insects; Social parasitism

Indexed keywords

ANT; BEHAVIOR; EGG; PARASITISM; QUEEN; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL INSECT; WORKER CASTE;

FORMICA FUSCA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 36148993655     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-007-0456-5     Document Type: Article

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