Eusocial insects as superorganisms
Open Access
- 1 July 2010
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Communicative & Integrative Biology
- Vol. 3 (4) , 360-362
Abstract
We recently published a paper titled “Energetic Basis of Colonial Living in Social Insects” showing that basic features of whole colony physiology and life history follow virtually the same size-de...Keywords
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