Ants Discriminate Between Different Hydrocarbon Concentrations
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1 Laboratory of Experimental and Comparative Ethology, University Paris 13-Sorbonne Paris Cité, Villetaneuse, France, 2 Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, 3 UMR 7261 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l’Insecte, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France, 4 Departments of Entomology and Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
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