Waste management in the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex echinatior: The role of worker size, age and plasticity

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1219-1228

  Waddington, Sarah J ^a   Hughes, William O H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caste; Hygiene; Polyethism; Social insect; Stimulus response threshold

Indexed keywords

ANT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNGUS; LABOR DIVISION; MARKING METHOD; POLYETHISM; SOCIAL INSECT; SPECIALIZATION; TOXIN; VULNERABILITY; WORKER CASTE;

ACROMYRMEX ECHINATIOR; ANIMALIA; ATTA; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77954541446     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-010-0936-x     Document Type: Article

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