Trail-sharing among tropical ants: Interspecific use of trail pheromones?

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 495-503

  Menzel, Florian ^a,b   Pokorny, Tamara ^c   Blüthgen, Nico ^a   Schmitt, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ant mosaics; Dominance hierarchy; Formicidae; Informational parasitism; Interspecific aggression; Olfactory eavesdropping; Trail pheromones; Trail sharing

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ANT; DOMINANCE; HABITUATION; OLFACTORY CUE; PARASITISM; PHEROMONE; WORKER CASTE;

CAMPONOTUS RUFIFEMUR; CAMPONOTUS SAUNDERSI; CREMATOGASTER MODIGLIANII; DOLICHODERUS CUSPIDATUS; FORMICIDAE; POLYRHACHIS YPSILON;

EID: 77955263071     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2010.01206.x     Document Type: Article

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