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A new tarsal gland in ants and the possible role in chemical communication

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  1. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA

    B. Hölldobler & J. M. Palmer

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This work was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. We thank T. Rice for her assistance with the SEM micrographs.

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Hölldobler, B., Palmer, J.M. A new tarsal gland in ants and the possible role in chemical communication. Naturwissenschaften 76, 385–386 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00366215

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