Queen ants make distinctive sounds that are mimicked by a butterfly social parasite

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5915, 2009, Pages 782-785

  Barbero, Francesca ^a,b   Thomas, Jeremy A ^b,c   Bonelli, Simona ^a   Balletto, Emilio ^a   Schönrogge, Karsten ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; BUTTERFLY; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; MIMICRY; QUEEN; SOCIAL PARASITISM; WORKER CASTE;

ACOUSTICS; ANT; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; ECOSYSTEM; IMITATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LARVA; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); QUEEN (INSECT); SPECIES INVASION; WORKER (INSECT);

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BUTTERFLIES; FEMALE; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LARVA; PUPA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; MACULINEA REBELI; MYRMICA SCHENCKI;

EID: 59849105510     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1163583     Document Type: Article

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