Smells like home: Desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis, use olfactory landmarks to pinpoint the nest

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Steck, Kathrin ^a   Hansson, Bill S ^a   Knaden, Markus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CATAGLYPHIS; CATAGLYPHIS FORTIS; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 61849134341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-6-5     Document Type: Article

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