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Olfactory conditioning during the recruitment process in a leaf-cutting ant

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During recruitment, workers of Acromyrmex lundi are conditioned to the odor of the food fragment initially carried by the scout worker. The learned odor cue is used as a decision criterion during food collection.

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  1. Departmento de Biología, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pab II ciudad Universitaria, 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Flavio Roces

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Roces, F. Olfactory conditioning during the recruitment process in a leaf-cutting ant. Oecologia 83, 261–262 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00317762

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