Tropical parabiotic ants: Highly unusual cuticular substances and low interspecific discrimination

BACKGROUND: Associations between animal species require that at least one of the species recognizes its partner. Parabioses are associations of two ant species which co-inhabit the same nest. Ants usually possess an elaborate nestmate recognition system, which is based on cuticular hydrocarbons and...

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Autores principales: Menzel, Florian, Blüthgen, Nico, Schmitt, Thomas
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2577638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18937827
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-5-16

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2577638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18937827
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-5-16

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