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Behav Processes

Title:		A hitherto unknown ethological factor in the ant Tetramorium impurum (Myrmicinae)
Author(s):		Cammaerts MC; Verhaeghe JC; Cammaerts R; Lesseux R;
Address:		"Laboratoire de Biologie Animale et Cellulaire, Faculte des Sciences, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 50 Avenue F. Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium"
Journal Title:		Behav Processes
Year:		1991
Volume:		23
Issue:		3
Page Number:		193 - 203
DOI:		10.1016/0376-6357(91)90049-6
ISSN/ISBN:		0376-6357 (Print) 0376-6357 (Linking)
Abstract:		"In Tetramorium impurum, an ethological factor can be found on workers' last visible abdominal sternite. For a short time, it attracts ants, increases their linear speed and enhances the efficiency of the trail pheromone. This factor is not colony-specific but may play a role in the foraging and recruiting systems of the species"
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Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINECammaerts, M C Verhaeghe, J C Cammaerts, R Lesseux, R eng Netherlands 1991/05/01 Behav Processes. 1991 May; 23(3):193-203. doi: 10.1016/0376-6357(91)90049-6"