Experience influences aggressive behaviour in the Argentine ant

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 152-155

  Van Wilgenburg, Ellen ^a,b   Clémencet, Johanna ^a,c   Tsutsui, Neil D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

Author keywords

Aggression; Invasive species; Learning; Linepithema humile; Memory; Nestmate recognition

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANT; INVASIVE SPECIES; LEARNING; MEMORY; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; WORKER CASTE;

ARGENTINA;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; LINEPITHEMA HUMILE;

EID: 77951482127     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0616     Document Type: Article

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