Social interactions can facilitate transmission of microbes between individuals, reducing variation in gut communities within social groups. Thus, the evolution of social behaviors and symbiont commun
Honeybees, Apis mellifera, show age-related division of labor in which young adults perform maintenance (“housekeeping”) tasks inside the colony before switching to outside foraging at approximately 2
It is the brain specific transcriptome data from 95 samples of 54 mammalian species, including 7 Orders (Artiodactyla, Carnivora, Chiroptera, Diprotodontia, Eulipotyphla, Hyracoidea and Rodentia). Seq
Worker honeybees, Apis mellifera, police each otherâs reproduction by killing worker-laid eggs. Previous experiments demonstrated that worker policing is effective, killing most (â¼98%) worker-laid
1.Animal nutritional state can profoundly affect behavior, including an individual's tendency to cooperate with others. We investigated how nutritional restriction at different life stages affects coo
