Extracting individual characteristics from population data reveals a negative social effect during honeybee defence.
Honeybees protect their colony against vertebrates by mass stinging and they coordinate their actions during this crucial event thanks to an alarm pheromone carried directly on the stinger, which is therefore released upon stinging. The pheromone then recruits nearby bees so that more and more bees...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2022-09-01
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| Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010305 |