Fast and Flexible: Argentine Ants Recruit from Nearby Trails

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Flanagan, Tatiana P ^a,b   Pinter Wollman, Noa M ^c,d   Moses, Melanie E ^b   Gordon, Deborah M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b University of New Mexico   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL FOOD; ANT; ANT RECRUITMENT; ANT TRAIL; ARGENTINE ANT; ARTICLE; FIELD STUDY; FOOD SOURCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INSECT SOCIETY; NONHUMAN; TROPHALLAXIS; WORKER (INSECT);

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84881529309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070888     Document Type: Article

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