Search Results - "Errard, C"
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CHEMICAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIAL PARASITISM IN ANTS
Published in Annual review of entomology (01-01-2001)“…The chemical strategies by which parasites manage to break into the social fortresses of ants offer a fascinating theme in chemical ecology. Semiochemicals…”
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Blending in with the crowd: social parasites integrate into their host colonies using a flexible chemical signature
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (22-09-2002)“…chemical profile, newly emerged callows were reared in isolation from the mother colony (without any contact with adult ants). The isolated…”
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geographical mosaic of coevolution in a slave-making host-parasite system
Published in Journal of evolutionary biology (01-05-2011)“…Three different isolated populations of the slave-making ant Rossomyrmex minuchae, sympatric with its obligate host Proformica longiseta, are known from the…”
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Social discrimination tuning in ants: template formation and chemical similarity
Published in Behavioral ecology and sociobiology (01-01-2006)“…To investigate the role of template plasticity in shaping nest-mate recognition processes in ants, we constructed experimental mixed-species groups of Manica…”
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Phylogeny of ants (Formicidae) based on morphology and DNA sequence data
Published in Molecular phylogenetics and evolution (01-06-2004)“…In order to reconstruct ants' phylogeny, we analysed DNA sequences for two nuclear genes, abdominal-A and Ultrabithorax, from 49 species of ants and two…”
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Early learning of volatile chemical cues leads to interspecific recognition between two ant species
Published in Insectes sociaux (2008)“…Nestmate recognition in social insects generally involves matching a label to the template that is acquired through the early learning of non-volatile…”
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Label familiarity and discriminatory ability of ants reared in mixed groups
Published in Insectes sociaux (01-01-1997)“…The discriminatory ability of the ant Manica rubida was tested using mixed species groups composed of M. rubida and Formica selysi. We recorded the response of…”
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The role of the symbiotic fungus in the digestive metabolism of two species of fungus-growing ants
Published in Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology (01-02-2002)“…Leaf-cutting ants live in an obligatory symbiosis with a fungus which they grow on fresh leaves harvested by workers. This study attempts to clarify the…”
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Behavioural and chemical studies of discrimination processes in the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex laticeps nigrosetosus (Forel, 1908)
Published in Brazilian journal of biology (01-08-2006)“…Leaf-cutting ants live in symbiosis with a basidiomycete fungus that is exploited as a source of nutrients for ant larvae. Tests of brood transport revealed…”
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Interspecific recognition in Chilean parabiotic ant species
Published in Insectes sociaux (01-01-2003)“…In Chile, Camponotus morosus and Solenopsis gayi sometimes co-inhabit a single nest, seemingly in a parabiotic association. To elucidate the nature of this…”
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Induced mimicry of colony odors in ants
Published in Journal of chemical ecology (01-08-1991)“…The cuticular hydrocarbons of Formica selysi (Formicinae) and Manica rubida (Myrmicinae) reared in single species and in mixed species colonies were determined…”
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Species polyethism in heterospecific groups of Myrmicinae ants
Published in Ethology, ecology & evolution (01-04-1995)“…We studied species polyethism in heterospecific queenless and queenright groups of ants by associating Manica rubida (olygogynous) individuals with Myrmica…”
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A geographical mosaic of coevolution in a slaveamaking hostaparasite system
Published in Journal of evolutionary biology (01-05-2011)“…Three different isolated populations of the slave-making ant Rossomyrmex minuchae, sympatric with its obligate host Proformica longiseta, are known from the…”
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Hybienic behavior, liquid-foraging, and trophallaxis in the leafcutting ants, Acromyrmex subterraneus and Acromyrmex
Published in Journal of insect science (Tucson, Ariz.) (2009)“…Neotropical leaf-cutting ants (tribe Attini) live in obligate symbiosis with fungus they culture for food. To protectthemselves and their fungus garden from…”
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Heterospecific substances in the postpharyngeal gland secretion of ants reared in mixed groups
Published in Die Naturwissenschaften (01-09-1992)Get full text
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Reproductive competition and colony fragmentation in the guest-ant,Formicoxenus provancheri
Published in Experientia (01-09-1993)Get full text
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Digestive capacities of leaf-cutting ants and the contribution of their fungal cultivar to the degradation of plant material
Published in Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology (01-07-2005)“…Leaf-cutting ants (tribe Attini) are a unique group of ants that cultivate a fungus that serves as a main source of their food. The fungus is grown on fresh…”
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Food influence on colonial recognition and chemical signature between nestmates in the fungus-growing ant Acromyrmex subterraneus subterraneus
Published in Chemoecology (01-03-2004)Get full text
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