Chapuisat, Michel; Bernasconi, Christian; Hoehn, Sophie; … - In: Behavioral Ecology 16 (2005) 1, pp. 15-19
. It has been proposed that the absence of aggression in unicolonial populations stems from a loss of nest mate recognition …, but few studies have tested this hypothesis. We investigated patterns of aggression and nest mate recognition in the … unicolonial wood ant, Formica paralugubris. Little aggression occurred, even between workers from nests separated by up to 5 km …