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| Aguilera-Olivares,Daniel; Rizo,José F; Burgos-Lefimil,Camila; Flores-Prado,Luis; Niemeyer,Hermann M. |
| BACKGROUND: In one-piece nesting termites, which nest and forage in a single piece of wood, soldier production increases during the swarming period, i.e. when the risk of invasion of their substrate and hence of their colony by dealates in search of a nesting substrate increases. In Neotermes chilensis, a one-piece nesting termite endemic to Chile, we hypothesized: i) that during swarming soldiers would defend their colony by showing higher aggressiveness toward non-nestmate than toward nestmate dealates, ii) that aggressiveness would negatively correlate with genetic relatedness of interacting soldier/dealate pairs and iii) that nestmate recognition would be based on differences in cues provided by cuticular compounds (CC) between nestmates and... |
| Tipo: Journal article |
Palavras-chave: Chemical communication; Neotermes chilensis; Kin recognition; Cuticular compounds; Aggressive behavior; Genetic relatedness. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2016000100011 |
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