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Group composition of individual personalities alters social network structure in experimental populations of forked fungus beetles.
Biology letters - 1 Mar 2022
Cook Phoebe A, Baker Olivia M, Costello Robin A, Formica Vincent A, Brodie Edmund D
Abstract excerpt
Social network structure is a critical group character that mediates the flow of information, pathogens and resources among individuals in a population, yet little is known about what shapes social structures. In this study, we experimentally tested whether social network structure depends on the personalities of individual group members. Replicate groups of forked fungus beetles (Bolitotherus cornutus) were...
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