Chemical Discrimination and Aggressiveness via Cuticular Hydrocarbons in a Supercolony-Forming Ant, Formica yessensis

BACKGROUND: Territorial boundaries between conspecific social insect colonies are maintained through nestmate recognition systems. However, in supercolony-forming ants, which have developed an extraordinary social organization style known as unicoloniality, a single supercolony extends across large...

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Autores principales: Kidokoro-Kobayashi, Midori, Iwakura, Misako, Fujiwara-Tsujii, Nao, Fujiwara, Shingo, Sakura, Midori, Sakamoto, Hironori, Higashi, Seigo, Hefetz, Abraham, Ozaki, Mamiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23115632
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0046840

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23115632
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0046840

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