Task Allocation of Wasps Governed by Common Stomach: A Model Based on Electric Circuits.

Simple regulatory mechanisms based on the idea of the saturable 'common stomach' can control the regulation of construction behavior and colony-level responses to environmental perturbations in Metapolybia wasp societies. We mapped the different task groups to mutual inductance electrical...

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Main Authors: Allison Hilbun, Istvan Karsai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5115849?pdf=render