Pheidole dentata

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Pheidole dentata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Genus: Pheidole
Species:
P. dentata
Binomial name
Pheidole dentata
Mayr, 1886 [1]

Pheidole dentata is a species of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae. It is distributed in North America, from the Mid-Atlantic states and southeastern United States to Mexico. [2]

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Neurochemistry

P. dentata takes on more and more tasks in the colony as it gets older, which requires it to respond to more and more olfactory cues in the course of performing them. This broadening olfactory response repertoire was demonstrated by Seid and Traniello 2006 to go along with increased serotonin and dopamine, but not octopamine. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Bolton, B. (2015). "Pheidole dentata". AntCat. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
  2. ↑ Muscedere, M. L.; Traniello, J. F. A. (2012). "Division of labor in the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole is associated with distinct subcaste- and age-related patterns of worker brain organization". PLOS ONE. 7 (2) e31618. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...731618M. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031618 . PMC   3281964 . PMID   22363686.
  3. ↑ Gadenne, Christophe; Barrozo, Romina B.; Anton, Sylvia (2016-03-11). "Plasticity in insect olfaction: to smell or not to smell?". Annual Review of Entomology . 61 (1): 317–333. doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-010715-023523. hdl: 11336/19586 . PMID   26982441. S2CID   207568844.


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