Urban physiology: City ants possess high heat tolerance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Angilletta Jr , Michael J ^a   Wilson, Robbie S ^b   Niehaus, Amanda C ^b   Sears, Michael W ^d   Navas, Carlos A ^c   Ribeiro, Pedro L ^c  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COLD TOLERANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HEAT TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; URBANIZATION; WALKING; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; COLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEAT; IMMOBILIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

FORMICIDAE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTS; BRAZIL; COLD TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; IMMOBILIZATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 38149087405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000258     Document Type: Article

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