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Animal Behaviour: Feeding the Superorganism

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 May 2009 English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Current Biology, volume 19, pages R366-R368 (issn: 0960-9822, Copyright policy )
Authors: Spencer T. Behmer;

doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.033

pmid: 19439258

Animal Behaviour: Feeding the Superorganism

Abstract

Insect societies are often described as superorganisms, and there are many functional parallels between organisms and superorganisms. Elegant work using ants shows that nutrient regulation, which occurs in many non-social animals, can also occur at the colony-level.

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Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), Ants, Animals, Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Feeding Behavior, Hierarchy, Social, Social Behavior, Models, Biological

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