The scent of supercolonies: the discovery, synthesis and behavioural verification of ant colony recognition cues

BACKGROUND: Ants form highly social and cooperative colonies that compete, and often fight, against other such colonies, both intra- and interspecifically. Some invasive ants take sociality to an extreme, forming geographically massive 'supercolonies' across thousands of kilometres. The su...

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Autores principales: Brandt, Miriam, van Wilgenburg, Ellen, Sulc, Robert, Shea, Kenneth J, Tsutsui, Neil D
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2775022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19863781
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-7-71

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2775022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19863781
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-7-71

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