Societies drifting apart? behavioural, genetic and chemical differentiation between supercolonies in the yellow crazy ant anoplolepis gracilipes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Drescher, Jochen ^a   Blüthgen, Nico ^a   Schmitt, Thomas ^b   Bühler, Jana ^b   Feldhaar, Heike ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; ALKENE DERIVATIVE; HYDROCARBON;

AGGRESSION; ANT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BORNEO; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANOPLOLEPIS GRACILIPES; HEXAPODA; PARATRECHINA LONGICORNIS;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GENE FLOW;

EID: 78149418174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013581     Document Type: Article

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