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Fig 1. Ventilation turrets of Atta vollenweideri.

Top row: Ventilation turrets of field nests (Formosa, Argentina) with a) one single opening and b) multiple openings. Bottom row: turrets constructed in a laboratory colony with c) one single opening and d) multiple openings. Note the different scale bars.


 * Halboth, F. and F. Roces. 2017. The construction of ventilation turrets in Atta vollenweideri leaf-cutting ants: Carbon dioxide levels in the nest tunnels, but not airflow or air humidity, influence turret structure. Plos One. 12. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0188162