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Individual crop loads provide local control for collective food intake in ant colonies

Nutritional regulation by ants emerges from a distributed process: food is collected by a small fraction of workers, stored within the crops of individuals, and spread via local ant-to-ant interactions. The precise individual-level underpinnings of this collective regulation have remained unclear ma...

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Autores principales: Greenwald, Efrat Esther, Baltiansky, Lior, Feinerman, Ofer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5862530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29506650
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.31730