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Initial parasitic behaviour of the temporary social parasitic ant Polyrhachis lamellidens can be induced by host-like cuticles in laboratory environment

Polyrhachis lamellidens is a temporary social parasitic species. When a newly mated queen encounters a host worker, it opens its jaws and then mounts and rubs the body of the host worker, called rubbing behaviour. This behaviour is different from aggressive behaviour and is considered to be a prepar...

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Autores principales: Kurihara, Yu, Iwai, Hironori, Kono, Nobuaki, Tomita, Masaru, Arakawa, Kazuharu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Company of Biologists Ltd 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8966776/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35199830
http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/bio.058956

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