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Differential undertaking response of a lower termite to congeneric and conspecific corpses

Undertaking behaviour is an essential activity in social insects. Corpses are often recognized by a postmortem change in a chemical signature. Reticulitermes flavipes responded to corpses within minutes of death. This undertaking behaviour did not change with longer postmortem time (24 h); however,...

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Autores principales: Sun, Qian, Haynes, Kenneth F., Zhou, Xuguo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3629736/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23598990
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep01650