How navigational guidance systems are combined in a desert ant

Current Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 927-932

  Collett, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; CATAGLYPHIS FORTIS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84861532113     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.03.049     Document Type: Article

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