Extracting individual characteristics from population data reveals a negative social effect during honeybee defence.

ABSTRACT: Honeybees protect their colony against vertebrates by mass stinging and they coordinate their actions during this crucial event thanks to an alarm pheromone carried directly on the stinger, which is therefore released upon stinging. The pheromone then recruits nearby bees so that more and more bees participate in the defence. However, a quantitative understanding of how an individual bee adapts its stinging response during the course of an attack is still a challenge: Typically, only the group behaviour is effectively measurable in experiment; Further, linking the observed group behaviour with individual responses requires a probabilistic model enumerating a combinatorial number of possible group contexts during the defence; Finally, extracting the individual characteristics from group obs

SUBMITTER: Petrov T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9477262 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature