Chemical and transcriptomic diversity do not correlate with ascending levels of social complexity in the insect order Blattodea
Marek Golian,
Daniel Friedman,
Mark Harrison
et al.
Abstract:Eusocial insects, such as ants and termites, are characterized by high
levels of coordinated social organization. This is contrasted by
solitary insects, which display more limited forms of collective
behavior. It has been hypothesized that this gradient in
socio-behavioral sophistication is positively correlated with chemical
profile complexity, due to a potentially increased demand for diversity
in chemical communication mechanisms in insects with higher levels of
social complexity. However, this claim has r… Show more
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