Individual differences influence collective behaviour in social caterpillars

The expression of individual differences within a population often depends on environmental conditions. We investigated, first, whether there are differences between individual group-living forest tent caterpillars, Malacosoma disstria, that are expressed only in nutritionally unbalanced environment...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Animal Behaviour 2008-07, Vol.76 (1), p.5-16
Hauptverfasser:	Dussutour, A., Nicolis, S.C., Despland, E., Simpson, S.J.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	alternative phenotypes Animal behavior Animal biology Animal ethology Biodiversity and Ecology Biological and medical sciences collective decision Differences Entomology Environmental Sciences feeding behaviour forest tent caterpillar Forests Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Insects Invertebrate Zoology Life Sciences Malacosoma disstria nutrition Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
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