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Honeybee communication during collective defence is shaped by predation
BACKGROUND: Social insect colonies routinely face large vertebrate predators, against which they need to mount a collective defence. To do so, honeybees use an alarm pheromone that recruits nearby bees into mass stinging of the perceived threat. This alarm pheromone is carried directly on the stinge...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8147350/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34030690 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01028-x |