ArticleScientific reports2013
Differential undertaking response of a lower termite to congeneric and conspecific corpses.
Article in Scientific reports, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Microbial Pressure and Social Immunity: Bumble Bees Increase Brood Hygiene After Exposure to aEcology and evolution · 2026Article
- Differential Behavioral Responses of Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Workers Toward Nestmate and Non-Nestmate Corpses.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2020Article
- Cooperative policing behaviour regulates reproductive division of labour in a termite.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Increased genetic diversity from colony merging in termites does not improve survival against a fungal pathogen.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Behavioural responses of free-ranging Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) towards dying and dead conspecifics.Primates; journal of primatology · 2020Article
- Chemistry of the Secondary Metabolites of Termites.Progress in the chemistry of organic natural products · 2019Article
- Managing the risks and rewards of death in eusocial insects.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- Symbiotic flagellate protists as cryptic drivers of adaptation and invasiveness of the subterranean termiteEcology and evolution · 2018Article
- A death pheromone, oleic acid, triggers hygienic behavior in honey bees (Apis mellifera L.).Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Co-founding ant queens prevent disease by performing prophylactic undertaking behaviour.BMC evolutionary biology · 2017Article
- Corpse management in social insects.International journal of biological sciences · 2013Review
- Avoidance of parasitic fungi and nematode threats byBehavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Undertaking behaviour is an essential activity in social insects. Corpses are often recognized by a postmortem change in a chemical signature. Reticulitermes flavipes responded to corpses within minutes of death. This undertaking behaviour did not change with longer postmortem time (24 h); however, R. flavipes exhibited distinctively different behaviours toward dead termites from various origins. Corpses of the congeneric species, Reticulitermes virginicus, were buried onsite by workers with a large group of soldiers guarding the burial site due to the risk of interspecific competition; while dead conspecifics, regardless of colony origin, were pulled back into the holding chamber for nutrient recycling and hygienic purposes. The burial task associated with congeneric corpses was coupled with colony defence and involved ten times more termites than retrieval of conspecific corpses. Our findings suggest elicitation of undertaking behaviour depends on the origin of corpses which is associated with different types of risk.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.