Significance of chemical recognition cues is context dependent in ants

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 839-844

  Bos, Nick ^a   Guerrieri, Fernando J ^a,b   d'Ettorre, Patrizia ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

Ant; Associative learning; Camponotus aethiops; Conditioning; Context; Cuticular hydrocarbon; Perception; Recognition

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANT; CHEMICAL CUE; COLONY; CONDITIONING; CUTICLE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HYDROCARBON; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; OLFACTORY CUE; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL INSECT; WORKER CASTE;

ANIMALIA; CAMPONOTUS AETHIOPS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77957799823     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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