Conspecific ant aggression is correlated with chemical distance, but not with genetic or spatial distance

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 323-331

  Martin, Stephen J ^a   Vitikainen, Emma ^b   Drijfhout, Falko P ^c   Jackson, Duncan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggression; Alkenes; Formica exsecta; Kin recognition

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; ALKENE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORMICA EXSECTA; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; INSECT GENETICS; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PHENOTYPE; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANTS;

ANIMALIA; FORMICA EXSECTA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84860702031     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-011-9503-0     Document Type: Article

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