Rolling away: a novel context-dependent escape behaviour discovered in ants

For animals facing dangers, the best option to optimize costs and benefits of defence sometimes may be avoidance. Here we report the discovery of a peculiar strategy adopted by Myrmecina graminicola, a cryptic ant living in forest floor. Experiments showed that when disturbed these ants respond with...

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Autores principales: Grasso, Donato A., Giannetti, Daniele, Castracani, Cristina, Spotti, Fiorenza A., Mori, Alessandra
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/PMC7051971/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32123182
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59954-9

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7051971/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32123182
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59954-9

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