Article
Defense in Social Insects: Diversity, Division of Labor, and Evolution.
Annual review of entomology - 7 Jan 2022
Abbot Patrick
Abstract excerpt
All social insects defend their colony from predators, parasites, and pathogens. In Oster and Wilson's classic work, they posed one of the key paradoxes about defense in social insects: Given the universal necessity of defense, why then is there so much diversity in mechanisms? Ecological factors undoubtedly are important: Predation and usurpation have imposed strong selection on eusocial insects, and active...
Topics
- Animals
- Bees
- Behavior, Animal
- Insecta
- Phenotype
- Social Behavior