Erratum to: Nestmate recognition and the role of cuticular hydrocarbons in the African termite raiding ant pachycondyla analis (J Chem Ecol, (2010), 36, (441-448), 10.1007/s10886-010-9774-6);Nestmate recognition and the role of cuticular hydrocarbons in the African termite raiding ant Pachycondyla analis

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 441-448

  Yusuf, Abdullahi A ^a,b   Pirk, Christian W W ^b   Crewe, Robin M ^b   Njagi, Peter G N ^a   Gordon, Ian ^a   Torto, Baldwyn ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cuticular hydrocarbons; Formicidae; Mandible opening response bioassay; Nestmate recognition; Pachycondyla analis; Ponerinae; Ponerine ant

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANT; BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL CUE; CUTICLE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROCARBON; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; SPECTROMETRY; TERMITE;

FORMICIDAE; ISOPTERA; PACHYCONDYLA ANALIS; PONERINAE;

EID: 77952319187     PISSN: 00980331     EISSN: 15731561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-010-9800-8     Document Type: Erratum

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