Caste and sex specific olfactory glomerular organization and brain architecture in two sympatric ant species Camponotus sericeus and Camponotus compressus (Fabricius, 1798)

Arthropod Structure and Development

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 485-497

  Mysore, Keshava ^a,b   Subramanian, K A ^a   Sarasij, R C ^a   Suresh, Arvind ^a   Shyamala, Baragur V ^b   VijayRaghavan, K ^a   Rodrigues, Veronica ^a,c  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE   (India)

^c TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Antennal lobes; Ants; Glomeruli; Morphological castes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CASTE; ANT; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CAMPONOTUS COMPRESSUS; CAMPONOTUS SERICEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MACROGLOMERULUS; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BRAIN; FEMALE; MALE; SENSE ORGANS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

CAMPONOTUS COMPRESSUS; CAMPONOTUS SERICEUS; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 70350039080     PISSN: 14678039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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