Changes in the Hydrocarbon Proportions of Colony Odor and Their Consequences on Nestmate Recognition in Social Wasps

In social insects, colonies have exclusive memberships and residents promptly detect and reject non-nestmates. Blends of epicuticular hydrocarbons communicate colony affiliation, but the question remains how social insects use the complex information in the blends to discriminate between nestmates a...

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Autores principales: Costanzi, Elena, Bagnères, Anne-Geneviève, Lorenzi, Maria Cristina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3667189/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23734237
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065107

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3667189/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23734237
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065107

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