The architecture of the desert ant's navigational toolkit (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Myrmecological News

Volumn 12, Issue , 2009, Pages 85-96

  Wehner, Rüdigger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Associative networks; Cataglyphis; Cognitive mapping; Landmark guidance; Melophorus; Ocymyrmex; Path integration; Position paper.; Review; Systematic search; Target expansion

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CATAGLYPHIS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; MELOPHORUS; OCYMYRMEX;

EID: 62349139431     PISSN: 19944136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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