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An Overlooked Mandibular-Rubbing Behavior Used during Recruitment by the African Weaver Ant, Oecophylla longinoda

In Oecophylla, an ant genus comprising two territorially dominant arboreal species, workers are known to (1) use anal spots to mark their territories, (2) drag their gaster along the substrate to deposit short-range recruitment trails, and (3) drag the extruded rectal gland along the substrate to de...

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Autores principales: Roux, Olivier, Billen, Johan, Orivel, Jérôme, Dejean, Alain
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2813860/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20126536
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008957