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Friends and Foes from an Ant Brain's Point of View – Neuronal Correlates of Colony Odors in a Social Insect

BACKGROUND: Successful cooperation depends on reliable identification of friends and foes. Social insects discriminate colony members (nestmates/friends) from foreign workers (non-nestmates/foes) by colony-specific, multi-component colony odors. Traditionally, complex processing in the brain has bee...

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Autores principales: Brandstaetter, Andreas Simon, Rössler, Wolfgang, Kleineidam, Christoph Johannes
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3121771/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21731724
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021383