The Social Context of Cannibalism in Migratory Bands of the Mormon Cricket

Cannibalism has been shown to be important to the collective motion of mass migratory bands of insects, such as locusts and Mormon crickets. These mobile groups consist of millions of individuals and are highly destructive to vegetation. Individuals move in response to attacks from approaching consp...

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Autores principales: Bazazi, Sepideh, Ioannou, Christos C., Simpson, Stephen J., Sword, Gregory A., Torney, Colin J., Lorch, Patrick D., Couzin, Iain D.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21179402
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015118

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21179402
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015118

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