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'''''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.<ref name="Muscedere&Traniello_2012"/>

==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.<ref name="Gadenne-et-al-2016">{{cite journal | last1=Gadenne | first1=Christophe | last2=Barrozo | first2=Romina B. | last3=Anton | first3=Sylvia | title=Plasticity in insect olfaction: to smell or not to smell? | journal=Annual Review of Entomology | volume=61 | issue=1 | date=2016-03-11 | doi=10.1146/annurev-ento-010715-023523 | pages=317–333 | s2cid=207568844 | pmid=26982441| hdl=11336/19586 | hdl-access=free }}</ref>

==See also== *Mermithergate

==References== {{Reflist|refs=

<ref name="AntCat">{{AntCat|443631|''Pheidole dentata''|2015|accessdate=31 January 2015}}</ref>

<ref name="Muscedere&Traniello_2012">{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0031618| title = Division of labor in the hyperdiverse ant genus ''Pheidole'' is associated with distinct subcaste- and age-related patterns of worker brain organization| journal = PLOS ONE| volume = 7| issue = 2| article-number = e31618| year = 2012| last1 = Muscedere | first1 = M. L. | last2 = Traniello | first2 = J. F. A. | pmid=22363686 | pmc=3281964| doi-access = free| bibcode = 2012PLoSO...731618M}}</ref>

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==External links== *{{commons category-inline|Pheidole dentata|''Pheidole dentata''}}

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dentata Category:Hymenoptera of North America Category:Insects of the United States Category:Insects of Mexico Category:Insects described in 1886 Category:Taxa named by Gustav Mayr

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