Animal Behaviour: Feeding the Superorganism

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Behmer, Spencer T ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ANT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; ANTS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 65449120250     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.033     Document Type: Short Survey

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