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Word: cuticular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2009-2009
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...chemically mark the pretender; that female will then be attacked by lower-ranking females. Biologists Jürgen Liebig and Adrian Smith of Arizona State University suspected that something similar might go on even without the queen's intervention and believed the answer might lie in scent chemicals called cuticular hydrocarbons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Rule of the Ant Colony: No Hanky-Panky | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

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