Are you my mother? Kin recognition in the ant Formica fusca

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 397-406

  El Showk, S ^b   Van Zweden, J S ^a   D'Ettorre, P ^a   SundstrOm L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cross fostering; Cuticular hydrocarbons; Parent offspring recognition; Social insects

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON;

AGGRESSION; ANT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYDROCARBON; KIN RECOGNITION; PATERNITY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; RECOGNITION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANTS; FEMALE; HYDROCARBONS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

FORMICA FUSCA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 74349097347     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01912.x     Document Type: Article

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