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University of Tennessee; University of Chester; Royal Holloway University of LondonPublication Date
2022-08-22
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The societies of honeybees (Apis spp) are microcosms of divided labour where the fitness interests of individuals are so closely aligned that, in some contexts, the colony behaves as an entity in itself. Self-organization at this extraordinary level requires sophisticated communication networks, so it is not surprising that the celebrated “waggle dance”, by which bees share information about locations outside the hive, evolved here. Yet bees within the colony respond to several other lesser-known signalling systems, including the tremble dance, the stop signal and the shaking signal, whose roles in coordinating worker behaviour are not yet fully understood. Here, we firstly bring together the large but disparate historical body of work that has investigated the “meaning” of such signals for individual bees, before going on to discuss how network-based approaches can show how such signals function as a complex system to control the collective foraging effort of these remarkable social insect societies.Citation
Hasenjager, M. J., Franks, V. R. & Leadbeater, E. (2022). From dyads to collectives: A review of honeybee signalling. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76, 124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-022-03218-1Publisher
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This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-022-03218-1ISSN
0340-5443EISSN
1432-0762ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/s00265-022-03218-1
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