Fasting and chemical signals affect recruitment and foraging efficiency in the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex vermiculatus

Behaviour

Volumn 146, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 923-938

  Torres Contreras, Hugo ^a   Niemeyer, Hermann M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Colony size; Pyrazines trail; Solitary foraging

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; POGONOMYRMEX; POGONOMYRMEX VERMICULATUS;

EID: 70149110430     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853908X396773     Document Type: Article

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