Wax on, wax off: Nest soil facilitates indirect transfer of recognition cues between ant nestmates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Bos, Nick ^a   Grinsted, Lena ^a,b   Holman, Luke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUTICULAR HYDROCARBON; HYDROCARBON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WAX;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CAMPONOTUS AETHIOPS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; NEST SOIL; NONHUMAN; ODOR; ORGANISM COLONY; RECOGNITION; SMELLING; SOIL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENT; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALIA; CAMPONOTUS AETHIOPS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; ENVIRONMENT; HYDROCARBONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOIL; WAXES;

EID: 79955757197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019435     Document Type: Article

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