Cataglyphis

Lahav S., Soroker V., Vander Meer R. K. and Hefetz A. (2001) Segregation of colony odor in the desert ant Cataglyphis niger. J. Chem. Ecol. 27, 927-943. 

Soroker V., Vienne C., Nowbahari E., and Hefetz A. (1994) The postpharyngeal gland as a gestalt organ for nestmate recognition in the ant Cataglyphis niger. Naturwissenschaften 81, 510-513. 

Wenseleers T., Billen J. and Hefetz A. (2002) Territorial marking in the desert ant Cataglyphis niger does it pay to play Bourgeois J. Insect Behav. 15, 85-93. 

Dahbi A. and Lenoir A. (1998). Queen and colony odour in the multiple nest ant species, Cataglyphis iberica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Insect. Soc., 45,... 

Dahbi, A., Lenoir, A., Tinaud, A., Taghizadeh, T., Francke, W. and Hefetz, A. (1996). Chemistry of the postpharyngeal gland secretion and its implication for the phytogeny of the Iberian Cataglyphis species (Hymenoptera Formicidae). 

Soroker, V. and Hefetz, A. (2000). Hydrocarbon site of synthesis and circulation in the desert ant Cataglyphis niger. J. Insect Physiol., 46,1097-1102. 

Soroker, V., Hefetz, A., Cojocaru, M., Billen, J., Franke, S. and Franke, W. (1995a). Structural and chemical ontogeny of the postpharyngeal gland of the desert ant Cataglyphis niger. Physiol. Entomol., 20, 323-329. 

Dahbi, A., Hefetz, A. and Lenoir, A. (2008). Chemotaxonomy of some Cataglyphis ants from Morocco and Burkina Faso. Biochem. Syst. Ecol., 36, 564-572. 

Oldham, N. J., Morgan, E.D., Agosti, D. and Wehner, R. (1999). Species recognition from postpharyngeal gland contents of ants of the Cataglyphis bicolor group. J. Chem. Ecol., 25,1383-1393. 

Figure 11.1 Cataglyphis niger workers were supplemented with extracts of the postpharyngeal gland (PPG), the hydrocarbon fraction of this extract (HC) or the non-hydrocarbon lipid fraction of this extract (Non-HC). Subsequently, untreated workers of a colony A were tested against untreated nestmates (A) or untreated non-nestmates (B) (Control), against nestmates supplemented with non-nestmate extract (AB), or against non-nestmates supplemented with nestmate extract (BA), and their aggression was observed. Asterisks depict significant statistically differences. Modified from Lahav etal. (1999).

C. (1990). Individual, geographical and experimental variation of cuticular hydrocarbons of the ant Cataglyphis cursor (Hymenoptera Formicidae) Their use in nest and subspecies recognition. Biochem. Syst. Ecol., 18, 63-73. 

Soroker, V., Vienne, C. and Hefetz, A. (1995). Hydrocarbon dynamics within and between nestmates in Cataglyphis niger (Hymenoptera Formicidae)../. Chem. Ecol., 21, 365-378. 

Isingrini, M Lenoir, A. and Jaisson, P. (1985). Pre-imaginal learning for colony-brood recognition in the ant Cataglyphis cursor Fonsc. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 82, 8545-8547. 

Cataglyphis species specificity and population differences. Z. Naturforsch., 47, 285-289. 

Gehring, W.J., and R. Wehner (1995). Heat shock protein synthesis and thermotolerance in Cataglyphis, an ant from the Sahara desert. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92 2992-2998. 

Constit. of various ants incl. Cataglyphis sp. and Iridomyrmex sp. 

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