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Behav Processes

Title:		Probable functions for a previously unrecognized pheromone in ants of the genus Myrmica
Author(s):		Cammaerts MC;
Address:		"Laboratoire de Biologie Animale et Cellulaire, Faculte des Sciences, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Av.F.D.Roosevelt, 50. 1050-Bruxelles Belgium"
Journal Title:		Behav Processes
Year:		1984
Volume:		9
Issue:		2-Mar
Page Number:		135 - 145
DOI:		10.1016/0376-6357(84)90035-4
ISSN/ISBN:		0376-6357 (Print) 0376-6357 (Linking)
Abstract:		"A previously unknown pheromone has been detected in workers of Myrmica rubra when an extract, usining a polar solvent, of the VIIth abdominal sternite was shown to attract ants over short distances and to act in synergy with the trail pheromone to enhance its effect. This new factor has now been shown to help the foraging workers to distinguish between recent and older trails and to confer on the trails a species-specific character (demonstrated for five species of Myrmica ) that the trail pheromone alone does not possess"
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Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINECammaerts, M C eng Netherlands 1984/04/01 Behav Processes. 1984 Apr; 9(2-3):135-45. doi: 10.1016/0376-6357(84)90035-4"