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ArticleBiology letters2024

Test of the negative feedback hypothesis of colony size sensing in social insects.

T Kikuchi, Y Hayashi, Y Fujito, N Fujiwara-Tsujii, S Kawabata, K Sugawara, R Yamaoka, Kazuki Tsuji

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Article in Biology letters, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Authors and funding

8 authors.

T KikuchiMarine Biosystems Research Center, Chiba University, Tokawa 1 , Choshi City, Chiba 288-0014, Japan.
Y HayashiBiomedical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading , Berkshire RG6 6AH, UK.
Y FujitoDivision of Analytical and Measuring Instruments, Shimadzu Corporation, 1 Kuwabaracho Nishinokyo Nakagyo-ku , Kyoto 604-8511, Japan.
N Fujiwara-TsujiiDivision of Core Technology for Pest Control Reserach, Institute for Plant Protection, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization , Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan.
S KawabataDepartment of Biology, Toyama University , Toyama 930-8555, Japan.
K SugawaraDepartment of Information Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Tohoku-gakuin University, 2-1-1, Tenjinzawa, Izumi , Sendai, Miyagi 981-3193, Japan.
R YamaokaDivision of Applied Biology, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology (Emeritus) , Kyoto 606-8287, Japan.
Kazuki TsujiDepartment of Subtropical Agro-Environmental Sciences, University of the Ryukyus , Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-2027-8582

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (KAKENHI) 17657029, 18047017, 20033015, 23870003, 26249024, 15H02652, 16F16794, 17H01249, 22H02702, 23K18155KAKENHIThe Environment Research and Technology Development Fund 4-1904, 4G-2301
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social insects can sense colony size-even without visual information in a dark environment. How they achieve this is yet largely unknown. We empirically tested a hypothesis on the proximate mechanism using ant colonies. In

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AntsPheromonesSocial BehaviorAnimal CommunicationAnimalsBehavior, AnimalFemaleFertilityHydrocarbonsPopulation DensityHydrocarbonsPheromonescontacteusocialityfertilityqueen pheromoneself-organizationworker reproduction

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