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Uncovering the complexity of ant foraging trails

The common garden ant Lasius niger use both trail pheromones and memory of past visits to navigate to and from food sources. In a recent paper we demonstrated a synergistic effect between route memory and trail pheromones: the presence of trail pheromones results in experienced ants walking straight...

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Main Authors: Czaczkes, Tomer J., Grüter, Christoph, Jones, Sam M., Ratnieks, Francis L.W.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Landes Bioscience 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3291321/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22482017
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