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Discriminatory abilities of facultative slave-making ants and their slaves

Intra-colony odor variability can disturb ants’ ability to discriminate against intruders. The evolutionary relevance of this phenomenon can be revealed by studies on colonies of slave-making ants in which the parasite, and not the host, is subject to selection pressures associated with living in a...

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Autor principal: Włodarczyk, T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5052306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27773941
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00040-016-0493-z