Title: | Chemical Ecology: A New Royal Scent in a Small Insect Society |
Address: | "School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 427 East Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. Electronic address: jliebig@asu.edu" |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.014 |
ISSN/ISBN: | 1879-0445 (Electronic) 0960-9822 (Linking) |
Abstract: | Understanding the diversity of insect societies is tied to explaining the mechanisms of reproductive division of labor. Small societies were not expected to use chemical signals or queen pheromones for this purpose. A new study shows that one of them does while using unexpected compounds |
Keywords: | Animals Bees Insecta Lactones *Odorants Pheromones *Sweat; |
Notes: | "MedlineLiebig, Juergen eng Comment England 2020/03/26 Curr Biol. 2020 Mar 23; 30(6):R280-R282. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.014" |