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From: Behavioural and chemical evidence for multiple colonisation of the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile, in the Western Cape, South Africa

Figure 5

Patterns of CHC profiles of Argentine ants from different sites. Discriminant Analysis of Argentine ant cuticular hydrocarbons, based on nine principal component factors selected by Principal Component Analysis on forty CHC compounds extracted from field populations from eight sites in the Western Cape, South Africa. Ants from Elim 3 nest are significantly separated from all other ants in the remaining sites based on the CHC profiles.

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