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The Rules of Aggression: How Genetic, Chemical and Spatial Factors Affect Intercolony Fights in a Dominant Species, the Mediterranean Acrobat Ant Crematogaster scutellaris

Nest-mate recognition plays a key role in the biology of ants. Although individuals coming from a foreign nest are, in most cases, promptly rejected, the degree of aggressiveness towards non nest-mates may be highly variable among species and relies on genetic, chemical and environmental factors. We...

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Autores principales: Frizzi, Filippo, Ciofi, Claudio, Dapporto, Leonardo, Natali, Chiara, Chelazzi, Guido, Turillazzi, Stefano, Santini, Giacomo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4596555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26445245
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137919