Cataglyphis niger

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. 

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. 

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).

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

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