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Corpse Management in Social Insects
Undertaking behavior is an essential adaptation to social life that is critical for colony hygiene in enclosed nests. Social insects dispose of dead individuals in various fashions to prevent further contact between corpses and living members in a colony. Focusing on three groups of eusocial insects...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3619097/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23569436 http://dx.doi.org/10.7150/ijbs.5781 |
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description | Undertaking behavior is an essential adaptation to social life that is critical for colony hygiene in enclosed nests. Social insects dispose of dead individuals in various fashions to prevent further contact between corpses and living members in a colony. Focusing on three groups of eusocial insects (bees, ants, and termites) in two phylogenetically distant orders (Hymenoptera and Isoptera), we review mechanisms of death recognition, convergent and divergent behavioral responses toward dead individuals, and undertaking task allocation from the perspective of division of labor. Distinctly different solutions (e.g., corpse removal, burial and cannibalism) have evolved, independently, in the holometabolous hymenopterans and hemimetabolous isopterans toward the same problem of corpse management. In addition, issues which can lead to a better understanding of the roles that undertaking behavior has played in the evolution of eusociality are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-36190972013-04-08 Corpse Management in Social Insects Sun, Qian Zhou, Xuguo Int J Biol Sci Review Undertaking behavior is an essential adaptation to social life that is critical for colony hygiene in enclosed nests. Social insects dispose of dead individuals in various fashions to prevent further contact between corpses and living members in a colony. Focusing on three groups of eusocial insects (bees, ants, and termites) in two phylogenetically distant orders (Hymenoptera and Isoptera), we review mechanisms of death recognition, convergent and divergent behavioral responses toward dead individuals, and undertaking task allocation from the perspective of division of labor. Distinctly different solutions (e.g., corpse removal, burial and cannibalism) have evolved, independently, in the holometabolous hymenopterans and hemimetabolous isopterans toward the same problem of corpse management. In addition, issues which can lead to a better understanding of the roles that undertaking behavior has played in the evolution of eusociality are discussed. Ivyspring International Publisher 2013-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3619097/ /pubmed/23569436 http://dx.doi.org/10.7150/ijbs.5781 Text en © Ivyspring International Publisher. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Reproduction is permitted for personal, noncommercial use, provided that the article is in whole, unmodified, and properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Sun, Qian Zhou, Xuguo Corpse Management in Social Insects |
title | Corpse Management in Social Insects |
title_full | Corpse Management in Social Insects |
title_fullStr | Corpse Management in Social Insects |
title_full_unstemmed | Corpse Management in Social Insects |
title_short | Corpse Management in Social Insects |
title_sort | corpse management in social insects |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3619097/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23569436 http://dx.doi.org/10.7150/ijbs.5781 |
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