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Research Article
Polarised skylight and the landmark panorama provide night-active bull ants with compass information during route following
Samuel F. Reid, Ajay Narendra, Jan M. Hemmi, Jochen Zeil
Journal of Experimental Biology 2011 214: 363-370; doi: 10.1242/jeb.049338
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Article Information

vol. 214 no. 3, 363-370

DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.049338
PubMed 
21228195

Published By 
The Company of Biologists Ltd
Print ISSN 
0022-0949
Online ISSN 
1477-9145
History 
  • Accepted October 13, 2010
  • Published online January 12, 2011.
Copyright & Usage 
© 2011.


Author Information

  1. Samuel F. Reid*,
  2. Ajay Narendra,
  3. Jan M. Hemmi and
  4. Jochen Zeil
  1. ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science, and Centre for Visual Sciences, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, PO Box 475, Sullivans Creek Road, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
  1. ↵* Author for correspondence (samuel.reid{at}anu.edu.au)

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Polarised skylight and the landmark panorama provide night-active bull ants with compass information during route following
Samuel F. Reid, Ajay Narendra, Jan M. Hemmi, Jochen Zeil
Journal of Experimental Biology 2011 214: 363-370; doi: 10.1242/jeb.049338
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