Cataglyphis fortis
The visual centring response in desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis
... genus Cataglyphis are remarkable long-distance ...in Cataglyphis fortis, which forages over large distances on the featureless surfaces of wide salt- pan areas, but also moves about areas covered ...
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Pinpointing food sources: olfactory and anemotactic orientation in desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis
... Several lines of evidence indicate that this strategy is a flexible and efficient means of quickly exploiting a plentiful food source (under natural conditions, this may be a larger carcass or fruit), e.g. when there is ...
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Smells like home: Desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis, use olfactory landmarks to pinpoint the nest
... in Cataglyphis fortis (nonanal and decanal, Figure 1C, data for methyl salicylate and indole not shown) but did not generate any innate attraction in naïve ants (Addi- tional file ...
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How to find home backwards? Navigation during rearward homing of Cataglyphis fortis desert ants
... ants. Cataglyphis fortis ants cannot see the nest entrance, which is only an inconspicuous hole in the desert floor, but they can recognize the familiar terrestrial signposts that are close to their ...
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Visual navigation in desert ants Cataglyphis fortis: are snapshots coupled to a celestial system of reference?
... species Cataglyphis fortis inhabiting open salt-pan areas of the Saharan desert were used to investigate the mechanism of landmark navigation close to the nest ...
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Lateral optic flow does not influence distance estimation in the desert ant Cataglyphis fortis
... of Cataglyphis fortis is coupled to optic-flow cues experienced within the lateral visual ...by Cataglyphis fortis to obtain information about distances ...that Cataglyphis ...
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Path integration in a three dimensional maze: ground distance estimation keeps desert ants Cataglyphis fortis on course
... that Cataglyphis fortis is indeed able to derive the ground distance information when walking over hills and, second, that this information is incorporated in a meaningful way into the path integration ...
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Hair plate mechanoreceptors associated with body segments are not necessary for three dimensional path integration in desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis
... Accepted 28 November 2006 Summary In formicine ants, the hair fields associated with the consider the much longer actual walking trajectory, instead of the base distance, when calculatin[r] ...
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How to find home backwards? Locomotion and inter leg coordination during rearward walking of Cataglyphis fortis desert ants
... coordination, one leg is in swing phase, while the other five legs remain on the ground. The swing propagates from back to front, first on one and then on the other body side. This kind of walking behaviour is seen in ...
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Ontogeny of learning walks and the acquisition of landmark information in desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis
... C. fortis ants are repeatedly forced to return to the nest guided exclusively by landmarks and hence to put their path integrator into an unusually large negative state, they drop their cookie crumb and express ...
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Naturalistic path integration of Cataglyphis desert ants on an air cushioned lightweight spherical treadmill
... different Cataglyphis species trained and tested under open-field or laboratory ...for Cataglyphis fortis (A – C) and Cataglyphis bicolor ...(C) Cataglyphis fortis (LAB-1, N=9); ...
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Estimation of homing distance in desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis, remains unaffected by disturbance of walking behaviour
... ants, Cataglyphis fortis , use a stride integrator as a distance gauge in their well-studied path integration system (while a skylight compass provides the direction ...
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Species specific differences in the fine structure of learning walk elements in Cataglyphis ants
... walks. Cataglyphis ants are thermophilic scavengers searching for dead arthropods during their extensive foraging ...excursions. Cataglyphis fortis inhabiting North African chotts and sebkhas cover ...
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What counts for ants? How return behaviour and food search of Cataglyphis ants are modified by variations in food quantity and experience
... (Cataglyphis fortis) live in North African salt pans often devoid of landmarks, making path integration, or dead reckoning, their primary means of ...
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Riforme e Investimenti Europa e Italia By Marco Fortis and Alberto Quadrio Curzio An analysis
... As for Italy, as stated by Fortis and Quadrio Curzio (p. 21), after having successfully reversed the GDP dynamics in 2014, it undoubtedly managed to consolidate the exit from the crisis in 2015, 2016, and 2017, ...
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Fundamental difference in life history traits of two species of Cataglyphis ants
... We now hypothesize that the coexistence of C. bicolor and C. mauritanica is due to the ephemerality of the habitat shared by the two species. Under the assumption that C. bicolor is a typically fast dispersing monogynous ...
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Retrospective analysis of antibiotic susceptibility and resistance patterns against nosocomial gram negative pathogens in fortis memorial research institute gurgaon
... To tackle this alarming situation pertaining to the antibiotic resistance due to improper prescription of antibiotics, there is a desperate need of conducting surveillance study in hospitals. Thus in view of these ...
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Early Frasnian sharks from central Iran
... Two limestone bone-beds in the early Frasnian of the Chahriseh section, central Iran, yielded numerous chondrichthyan teeth and scales. The fauna includes, most probably, only two taxa: a hitherto unknown aztecodontid ...
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A STUDY ON EMINENCE VALUE, GUARANTEE AND MAINTENANCE IN OPERATION THEATRE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO FORTIS MALAR HOSPITAL, CHENNAI
... whole, Fortis Malar Hospital has a well-equipped, properly maintained OT for the needs of the patients, and is fully capable of delivering safe and quality ...
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Proteome stability, heat hardening and heat shock protein expression profiles in Cataglyphis desert ants
... related Cataglyphis ants that occur in distinct ...ant Cataglyphis bombycina constitutively expresses HSC70 at higher levels, but has lower induced expression of heat tolerance-related genes in response to ...
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