Pavement Ant Workers (Tetramorium caespitum) Assess Cues Coded in Cuticular Hydrocarbons to Recognize Conspecific and Heterospecific Non-Nestmate Ants

Waxes: Chemistry, molecular biology and functions

Peter J. Holloway · Phytochemistry · 1995 · 498 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Molecular Biology +9

Water-Proofing Properties of Cuticular Lipids

Allen G. Gibbs · American Zoologist · 1998 · 480 citations

Life Sciences, Biophysics, Entomology +16

Ant Nestmate and Non-Nestmate Discrimination by a Chemosensory Sensillum

Mamiko Ozaki, Ayako Wada‐Katsumata, Kazuyo Fujikawa et al. · Science · 2005 · 450 citations

Life Sciences, Entomology, Zoology +15

“You are what you eat”: Diet modifies cuticular hydrocarbons and nestmate recognition in the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile

Dangsheng Liang, Jules Silverman · Die Naturwissenschaften · 2000 · 378 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Zoology +16

Direct Behavioral Evidence for Hydrocarbons as Ant Recognition Discriminators

Sigal Lahav, Victoria Soroker, Abraham Hefetz et al. · Die Naturwissenschaften · 1999 · 341 citations

Life Sciences, Entomology, Zoology +11