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SUBMITTER: Perez M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4345350 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Perez Margot M Giurfa Martin M d'Ettorre Patrizia P
Scientific reports 20150302
Natural odours are complex blends of numerous components. Understanding how animals perceive odour mixtures is central to multiple disciplines. Here we focused on carpenter ants, which rely on odours in various behavioural contexts. We studied overshadowing, a phenomenon that occurs when animals having learnt a binary mixture respond less to one component than to the other, and less than when this component was learnt alone. Ants were trained individually with alcohols and aldehydes varying in c ...[more]