What makes you a potential partner? Insights from convergently evolved ant-ant symbioses

Chemoecology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 105-119

  Menzel, Florian ^a   Orivel, Jérôme ^b   Kaltenpoth, Martin ^c   Schmitt, Thomas ^d  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggression; Coevolution; Cuticular hydrocarbons; Formicidae; Interspecific association; Parabiosis; Recognition cues

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901233622     PISSN: 09377409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00049-014-0149-2     Document Type: Article

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