Tight knit under stress: Colony resilience to the loss of tandem leaders during relocation in an Indian ant

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Kolay, Swetashree ^a   Annagiri, Sumana ^a  

^a Research Thiruvananthapuram   (India)

Author keywords

Diacamma indicum; Division of labour; Network analysis; Ponerine ant; Tandem running

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958064094     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150104     Document Type: Article

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