Smells like home: Desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis, use olfactory landmarks to pinpoint the nest

doi:10.1186/1742-9994-6-5

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Smells like home: Desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis, use olfactory landmarks to pinpoint the nest

Kathrin Steck , Bill S Hansson^* and Markus Knaden^*

Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans Knoell Strasse 8, 07745 Jena, Germany

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

Frontiers in Zoology 2009, 6:5doi:10.1186/1742-9994-6-5


Published:	27 February 2009

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Response of naïve ants to the study odours. The data provided give evidence that the odours used in this study are not innately attractive to Cataglyphis.

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