Wax on, wax off: nest soil facilitates indirect transfer of recognition cues between ant nestmates
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Bos, Nick; Grinsted, Lena; Holman, Luke
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Social animals use recognition cues to discriminate between group members and non-members. These recognition cues may be conceptualized as a label, which is compared to a neural representation of acceptable cue combinations termed the template. In ants and other social insects, the label consists of a waxy layer of colony-specific hydrocarbons on the body surface. Genetic and environmental differences between colony members may confound recognition and social cohesion, so many species perform...[Show more]
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Date published: | 2011-04-29 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/16636 |
Source: | PLoS ONE |
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0019435 |
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