Characterizing the collective personality of ant societies: Aggressive colonies do not abandon their home

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Scharf, Inon ^a   Modlmeier, Andreas P ^a   Fries, Stephan ^a   Tirard, Claire ^b   Foitzik, Susanne ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPSE REMOVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; NEST RELOCATION; NESTING; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PERSONALITY; PRODUCTIVITY; SOCIETY; TEMNOTHORAX NYLANDERI; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; TEMNOTHORAX NYLANDERI;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS;

EID: 84858684153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033314     Document Type: Article

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