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Foraging ecology of the thermophilic Australian desert ant, Melophorus bagoti

Barbara Muser A , Stefan Sommer B , Harald Wolf A and Rüdiger Wehner B C
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A Department of Neurobiology, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, D-89081 Ulm, Germany.

B Institute of Zoology, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland.

C Corresponding author. Email: rwehner@zool.unizh.ch

Australian Journal of Zoology 53(5) 301-311 https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO05023
Submitted: 25 May 2005  Accepted: 31 August 2005   Published: 11 November 2005



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