Rapid decision-making with side-specific perceptual discrimination in ants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Stroeymeyt, Nathalie ^a,b   Guerrieri, Fernando J ^a,c   van Zweden, Jelle S ^a,d   D'Ettorre, Patrizia ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; HYDROCARBON;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSIVENESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CAMPONOTUS AETHIOPS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HEMISPHERE; INSECT SOCIETY; NERVE TRACT; NESTING; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREDICTION; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; METABOLISM; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

CAMPONOTUS AETHIOPS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; ANTS; CUES; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HYDROCARBONS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; ODORS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77957874462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012377     Document Type: Article

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