Chemical disguise of myrmecophilous cockroaches and its implications for understanding nestmate recognition mechanisms in leaf-cutting ants

BACKGROUND: Cockroaches of the genus Attaphila regularly occur in leaf-cutting ant colonies. The ants farm a fungus that the cockroaches also appear to feed on. Cockroaches disperse between colonies horizontally (via foraging trails) and vertically (attached to queens on their mating flights). We an...

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Publicado no:BMC Ecol
Main Authors: Nehring, Volker, Dani, Francesca R., Calamai, Luca, Turillazzi, Stefano, Bohn, Horst, Klass, Klaus-Dieter, d’Ettorre, Patrizia
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4974750/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27495227
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12898-016-0089-5
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