Animal behaviour: feeding the superorganism.
Behmer ST
Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2475, USA. s-behmer@tamu.edu
Insect societies are often described as superorganisms, and there are many functional parallels between organisms and superorganisms. Elegant work using ants shows that nutrient regulation, which occurs in many non-social animals, can also occur at the colony-level.
Published 14 May 2009 in Curr Biol, 19(9): R366-8.
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