Nonaggressive behavior: A strategy employed by an obligate nest invader to avoid conflict with its host species.

ABSTRACT: In addition to its builders, termite nests are known to house a variety of secondary opportunistic termite species so-called inquilines, but little is known about the mechanisms governing the maintenance of these symbioses. In a single nest, host and inquiline colonies are likely to engage in conflict due to nestmate discrimination, and an intriguing question is how both species cope with each other in the long term. Evasive behaviour has been suggested as one of the mechanisms reducing the frequency of host-inquiline encounters, yet, the confinement imposed by the nests' physical boundaries suggests that cohabiting species would eventually come across each other. Under these circumstances, it is plausible that inquilines would be required to behave accordingly to secure their housing. Her

SUBMITTER: Hugo H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7452783 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature