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Role of early experience in ant enslavement: a comparative analysis of a host and a non-host species

BACKGROUND: Ants use the odour of the colony to discriminate nestmates. In some species, this odour is learned during the first days following emergence, and thus early experience has a strong influence on nestmate discrimination. Slave-making ants are social parasites that capture brood of other an...

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Autores principales: Blatrix, Rumsaïs, Sermage, Claire
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1199612/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16076389
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-2-13