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cuticular hydrocarbons; ants; gas chromatography; mass
spectrometry
Polistes-metricus say; nestmate recognition; kin recognition;
honey-bees; polygyne colonies; social wasps; hymenoptera;
lipids; discrimination; paper
Abstract:
Cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of individual workers of the ant Formica truncorum were measured and found to contain relatively few hydrocarbons. Pentacosane, heptacosane, nonacosane and hentriacontane dominated the mixture, but small amounts of the cor