Animal behaviour: feeding the superorganism. Academic Article

abstract

• 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.

authors

• Behmer, Spencer

published proceedings

• Curr Biol

author list (cited authors)

• Behmer, S. T.

citation count

• 24

complete list of authors

• Behmer, Spencer T

publication date

• May 2009

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Current Biology  Journal

keywords

• Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
• Animals
• Ants
• Feeding Behavior
• Hierarchy, Social
• Models, Biological
• Social Behavior

PubMed Central ID

• 19439258

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.033

start page

• R366

end page

• R368

volume

• 19

issue

• 9

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.033