Ant queen egg-marking signals: matching deceptive laboratory simplicity with natural complexity.

BACKGROUND: Experiments under controlled laboratory conditions can produce decisive evidence for testing biological hypotheses, provided they are representative of the more complex natural conditions. However, whether this requirement is fulfilled is seldom tested explicitly. Here we provide a lab/f...

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Main Authors: Jelle S van Zweden, Jürgen Heinze, Jacobus J Boomsma, Patrizia d'Ettorre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2648039?pdf=render