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Chemically Insignificant Social Parasites Exhibit More Anti-Dehydration Behaviors than Their Hosts

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Social parasites use a variety of deceptive mechanisms to avoid detection by their social-insect hosts and get tolerance in their colonies. One of these mechanisms is chemical insignificance, where social parasites have reduced amounts of recognition cues—hydrocarbons—on their cuticl...

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Autor principal: Lorenzi, Maria Cristina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8624806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34821806
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects12111006