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Ordering and topological defects in social wasps’ nests

Social insects have evolved a variety of architectural formations. Bees and wasps are well known for their ability to achieve compact structures by building hexagonal cells. Polistes wattii, an open nesting paper wasp species, builds planar hexagonal structures. Here, using the pair correlation func...

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Autores principales: Krishna, Shivani, Gopinath, Apoorva, Bhattacharjee, Somendra M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9334299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35902614
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16836-6