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Appetite for self-destruction: suicidal biting as a nest defense strategy in Trigona stingless bees

Self-sacrificial behavior represents an extreme and relatively uncommon form of altruism in worker insects. It can occur, however, when inclusive fitness benefits are high, such as when defending the nest. We studied nest defense behaviors in stingless bees, which live in eusocial colonies subject t...

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Publicado no:Behav Ecol Sociobiol
Main Authors: Shackleton, Kyle, Al Toufailia, Hasan, Balfour, Nicholas J., Nascimento, Fabio S., Alves, Denise A., Ratnieks, Francis L. W.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4293493/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25620834
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-014-1840-6
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