An individual based model examining the emergence of cooperative recognition in a social insect

We use an agent-based model to simulate the expression of recognition behavior in the form of aggression among individual workers within colonies of subterranean termites. Inter- and intraspecific recognition in the form of overt aggression varies in the genus Reticulitermes. Three patterns have eme...

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Main Authors: Copren, K A (Author), Geard, N L (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2005.
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