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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |