Specificity in Chemical Profiles of Workers, Brood and Mutualistic Fungi in Atta, Acromyrmex, and Sericomyrmex Fungus-growing Ants

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Journal of Chemical Ecology

• Publication date

  2007-11-27

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Chemistry, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s10886-007-9385-zPMID 18040743
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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