Appetite for self-destruction: suicidal biting as a nest defense strategy in Trigona stingless bees

Self-sacrificial behavior represents an extreme and relatively uncommon form of altruism in worker insects. It can occur, however, when inclusive fitness benefits are high, such as when defending the nest. We studied nest defense behaviors in stingless bees, which live in eusocial colonies subject t...

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Autores principales: Shackleton, Kyle, Al Toufailia, Hasan, Balfour, Nicholas J., Nascimento, Fabio S., Alves, Denise A., Ratnieks, Francis L. W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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Original Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4293493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25620834
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-014-1840-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4293493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25620834
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-014-1840-6

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