Social prophylaxis through distant corpse removal in ants

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 833-842

  Diez, Lise ^a   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^a   Detrain, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ants; Area marking; Myrmica rubra; Necrophoresis; Social insects; Threshold distance

Indexed keywords

ANT; IMMUNITY; NEST; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; PATHOGEN; PROBABILITY; SANITATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INSECT; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WORKER CASTE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; MYRMICA RUBRA;

EID: 84866742142     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-012-0965-6     Document Type: Article

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