Feeding and stocking up: Radio-labelled food reveals exchange patterns in ants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Buffin, Aurélie ^a   Denis, Damien ^a   Van Simaeys, Gaetan ^b   Goldman, Serge ^b   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE; TECHNETIUM;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANT; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD STORAGE; FORAGE; ISOTOPE LABELING; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOACTIVITY; SCINTIGRAPHY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

FORMICA FUSCA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUCROSE; TECHNETIUM;

EID: 67650164910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005919     Document Type: Article

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