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The dear enemy effect drives conspecific aggressiveness in an Azteca-Cecropia system

Territoriality is costly, and the accurate identification of intruders and the decision to perform aggressive responses are key behavioral traits in social animals. We studied aggression among individuals belonging to close and distant nests of the plant-ant Azteca muelleri, which lives in stems of...

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Autores principales: Zorzal, Gabriela, Camarota, Flávio, Dias, Marcondes, Vidal, Diogo M., Lima, Eraldo, Fregonezi, Aline, Campos, Ricardo I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7970830/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33731789
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85070-3