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Smells like home: Desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis, use olfactory landmarks to pinpoint the nest

BACKGROUND: Cataglyphis fortis ants forage individually for dead arthropods in the inhospitable salt-pans of Tunisia. Locating the inconspicuous nest after a foraging run of more than 100 meters demands a remarkable orientation capability. As a result of high temperatures and the unpredictable distr...

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Main Authors: Steck, Kathrin, Hansson, Bill S, Knaden, Markus
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2651142/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19250516
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-6-5
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