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First published online October 18, 2006
Journal of Experimental Biology 209, 4224-4229 (2006)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2006
doi: 10.1242/jeb.02461
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Starvation drives a threshold triggering communication

Anne-Catherine Mailleux*, Claire Detrain and Jean-Louis Deneubourg

Unit of Social Ecology, Free University of Brussels, Brussels B-1050, Belgium


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  		Fig. 1. Proportion of trail-laying ants that ingested at least a volume V as a function of the food volume ingested when the droplet volume exceeded crop capacity (3 µl) and when ants were food deprived for 1 day (open circles, N=58), 4 days (shaded circles, N=122) or 8 days (filled circles, N=85).

 




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