Recognition in ants: Social Origin Matters

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Meunier, Joël ^a,b   Delémont, Olivier ^a   Lucas, Christophe ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORMICA SELYSI; INSECT SOCIETY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NESTING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; ORGANISM COLONY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUEEN (INSECT); SIGNAL DETECTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SURVIVAL RATE; WORKER (INSECT); ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY;

FORMICA SELYSI; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; OVUM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79955755645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019347     Document Type: Article

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