Low levels of nestmate discrimination despite high genetic differentiation in the invasive pharaoh ant

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Schmidt, Anna M ^a   d'Ettorre, Patrizia ^a,b   Pedersen, Jes S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; MONOMORIUM PHARAONIS;

EID: 77954054040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-7-20     Document Type: Article

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