serval:BIB_BBEDE316E5A3
Social evolution: the smell of cheating.
10.1016/j.cub.2008.12.039
000264171100013
19278631
Chapuisat
M.
author
article
letter
2009
Current Biology
1879-0445[electronic], 0960-9822[linking]
journal
19
5
R196-R198
Coercion is a powerful means to enforce altruism and promote social cohesion in animal groups, but it requires the reliable identification of selfish individuals. Experiments in a desert ant provide the first direct proof that a single cuticular hydrocarbon elicits the policing of reproductive workers by other colony members.
Altruism
Animal Communication
Animals
Ants
Behavior, Animal/physiology
Deception
Evolution
Female
Hydrocarbons/chemistry
Male
Odors
Smell/physiology
Social Behavior
eng
60_published
true
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