Division of Labor Regulates Precision Rescue Behavior in Sand-Dwelling Cataglyphis cursor Ants: To Give Is to Receive

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Nowbahari, Elise ^a   Hollis, Karen L ^a,b   Durand, Jean Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; CATAGLYPHIS CURSOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DIVISION OF LABOR; FORAGING; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PRECISION RESCUE BEHAVIOR; REARING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

CATAGLYPHIS CURSOR; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84868687116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048516     Document Type: Article

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