Ants recognize foes and not friends

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1666, 2009, Pages 2461-2468

  Guerrieri, Fernando J ^a   Nehring, Volker ^a   Jørgensen, Charlotte G ^a   Nielsen, John ^a   Galizia, C Giovanni ^b   D'Ettorre, Patrizia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ants; Cuticular hydrocarbons; Nest mate recognition; Recognition systems

Indexed keywords

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; HYDROCARBON;

AGGRESSION; ANT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOASSAY; CUTICLE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HYDROCARBON; MATE RECOGNITION; ODOR; OLFACTORY CUE; WORKER CASTE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOASSAY; CUTICLE; INSECT SWARM; MATE CHOICE; METHYLATION; NEST SUCCESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; CAMPONOTUS; CAMPONOTUS HERCULEANUS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 66749149520     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1860     Document Type: Article

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