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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2014
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| 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 |