What is it about?
Trail pheromone disruption using Z9-hexadecenal against Argentine ants weakened their normally dominant status with other ants.
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Why is it important?
This was the first study to put trail pheromone disrption of ants in an ecological context.
Perspectives
The technology of semiochemicals is vastly under utilised against social insects.
Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland
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This page is a summary of: Disruption of Foraging by a Dominant Invasive Species to Decrease Its Competitive Ability, PLoS ONE, March 2014, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090173.
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