Fight or flight? A geographic mosaic in host reaction and potency of a chemical weapon in the social parasite Harpagoxenus sublaevis

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-56

  Bauer, Sabine ^a   Witte, Volker ^a   Böhm, Melanie ^a   Foitzik, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arms race; Co evolution; Dufour gland; Local adaptation; Slave making ants

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARMS RACE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOST USE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARASITE RESISTANCE; SECRETION; SOCIAL PARASITISM;

FORMICIDAE; HARPAGOXENUS SUBLAEVIS; LEPTOTHORAX; LEPTOTHORAX ACERVORUM; LEPTOTHORAX MUSCORUM;

EID: 77952671900     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-009-0817-3     Document Type: Article

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