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Interactions between worker ants may influence the growth of ant cemeteries

When an ant dies within a nest, a worker ant carries its corpse away from the nest and drops it onto a pile known as an ant cemetery. These ant cemeteries form cluster patterns, and the dynamics of the corpse piles have been studied experimentally. The aim of the present study was to investigate how...

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Autor principal: Sakiyama, Tomoko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7012894/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32047188
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59202-0