Recognition in a Social Symbiosis: Chemical Phenotypes and Nestmate Recognition Behaviors of Neotropical Parabiotic Ants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Emery, Virginia J ^a   Tsutsui, Neil D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKADIENE; HYDROCARBON;

AGGRESSIVENESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; CAMPONOTUS FEMORATUS; COITUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREMATOGASTER LEVIOR; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; ODOR; ORGANISM COLONY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; ODORS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84874295202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056492     Document Type: Article

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