Nest relocation and colony founding in the Australian desert ant, Melophorus bagoti Lubbock (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Psyche (London)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Schultheiss, Patrick ^a   Schwarz, Sebastian ^a   Wystrach, Antoine ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MELOPHORUS BAGOTI;

EID: 78751640937     PISSN: 00332615     EISSN: 16877438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/435838     Document Type: Article

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