Chemical Ecology: A New Royal Scent in a Small Insect Society

Juergen Liebig

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.014

Chemical Ecology: A New Royal Scent in a Small Insect Society

Juergen Liebig

Life Sciences, School of (SOLS)

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	R280-R282
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	30
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.014
State	Published - Mar 23 2020

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Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)

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