Visual discrimination of cues differing as for their number of elements, their shape or their orientation, by the ant Myrmica sabuleti

Biologia

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1169-1180

  Cammaerts, Marie Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ant; Conditioning; Cues; Discrimination; Myrmica sabuleti; Vision

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; MYRMICA SABULETI;

EID: 57349191827     PISSN: 00063088     EISSN: 13369563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11756-008-0172-2     Document Type: Article

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