Ant queen egg-marking signals: Matching deceptive laboratory simplicity with natural complexity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  van Zweden, Jelle S ^a,b   Heinze, Jürgen ^b   Boomsma, Jacobus J ^a   d'Ettorre, Patrizia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3,11 DIMETHYLHEPTACOSANE; HYDROCARBON; PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 3,11-DIMETHYLHEPTACOSANE; ALKANE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HYPOTHESIS; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MARKER ASSISTED BREEDING; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; QUEEN (INSECT); SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; LABORATORY; OOCYTE; RESEARCH; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

PACHYCONDYLA INVERSA;

ALKANES; ANIMALS; ANTS; FEMALE; LABORATORIES; MALE; OVUM; PHEROMONES; RESEARCH; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 61849109276     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004718     Document Type: Article

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