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Behav Processes

Title:		A new pheromone in the ant Pheidole pallidula (Myrmicinae)
Author(s):		Detrain C; Cammaerts MC;
Address:		"Laboratoire de Biologie Animale et Cellulaire (CP160), Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 50 avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium"
Journal Title:		Behav Processes
Year:		1991
Volume:		24
Issue:		2
Page Number:		123 - 132
DOI:		10.1016/0376-6357(91)90004-J
ISSN/ISBN:		0376-6357 (Print) 0376-6357 (Linking)
Abstract:		"In the dimorphic species Pheidole pallidula, an ethological factor, present on the VIIth abdominal sternite attracts ants from short distances and enhances the linear speed of those having approached it. Added to poison gland extract, it improves the workers' trail following behaviour. This factor is essentially presented by minors, majors' sternite having a much weaker ethological effect. Several functions and a glandular origin are suggested for this hitherto unknown pheromone in Pheidole pallidula"
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Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINEDetrain, C Cammaerts, M C eng Netherlands 1991/08/01 Behav Processes. 1991 Aug; 24(2):123-32. doi: 10.1016/0376-6357(91)90004-J"