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Curr Opin Insect Sci

Title:		"Inhibitory signaling in collective social insect networks, is it indeed uncommon?"
Author(s):		Goldberg TS; Bloch G;
Address:		"Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The A. Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Electronic address: tzvi.goldberg@mail.huji.ac.il. Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The A. Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; The Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel"
Journal Title:		Curr Opin Insect Sci
Year:		2023
Volume:		20230825
Issue:
Page Number:		101107 -
DOI:		10.1016/j.cois.2023.101107
ISSN/ISBN:		2214-5753 (Electronic)
Abstract:		"Individual entities across levels of biological organization interact to reach collective decisions. In centralized neuronal networks, competing neural populations commonly accumulate information over time while increasing their own activity, and cross-inhibiting other populations until one group passes a given threshold. In social insects, there is good evidence for decisions mediated by positive feedbacks, but we found evidence for similar inhibitory signals only in honey bee (Apis mellifera) stop signals, and Pharaoh's ant- (Monomorium pharaonic) repellent pheromones, with only the former occasionally being used as cross-inhibition. We discuss whether these differences stem from insufficient research effort or represent genuine differences across levels of biological organization"
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Notes:		"PublisherGoldberg, Tzvi S Bloch, Guy eng Review Netherlands 2023/08/28 Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2023 Aug 25; 59:101107. doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2023.101107"