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Resilience of honeybee colonies via common stomach: A model of self-regulation of foraging

We propose a new regulation mechanism based on the idea of the “common stomach” to explain several aspects of the resilience and homeostatic regulation of honeybee colonies. This mechanism exploits shared pools of substances (pollen, nectar, workers, brood) that modulate recruitment, abandonment and...

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Autores principales: Schmickl, Thomas, Karsai, Istvan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5697885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29161278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188004