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Linoleic acid as corpse recognition signal in a social aphid

Social insect colonies constantly produce dead insects, which cause sanitary problems and potentially foster deadly pathogens and parasites. Hence, many social insects have evolved a variety of hygienic behaviors to remove cadavers from the colonies. To that end, they have to discriminate dead insec...

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Autores principales: Shibao, Harunobu, Kutsukake, Mayako, Matsuyama, Shigeru, Fukatsu, Takema
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8734330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34991720
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40851-021-00184-w