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Self-organization of plasticity and specialization in a primitively social insect.
Cell systems - 21 Sept 2022
Patalano Solenn, Alsina Adolfo, Gregorio-Rodríguez Carlos, Bachman Martin, Dreier Stephanie, Hernando-Herraez Irene, Nana Paulin, Balasubramanian Shankar, Sumner Seirian, Reik Wolf, Rulands Steffen
Abstract excerpt
Biological systems have the capacity to not only build and robustly maintain complex structures but also to rapidly break up and rebuild such structures. Here, using primitive societies of Polistes wasps, we show that both robust specialization and rapid plasticity are emergent properties of multi-scale dynamics. We combine theory with experiments that, after perturbing the social structure by removing the queen,...
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