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Biomarkers in a socially exchanged fluid reflect colony maturity, behavior and distributed metabolism

ABSTRACT: Study of the protein composition of the trophallactic fluid of the carpenter ant Camponotus floridanus. Samples were analyzed from ants with different functions (Nurse, Forager) coming from colonies with different ages (mature, young) either kept in lab or grown under natural conditions.

INSTRUMENT(S): Q Exactive

ORGANISM(S): Camponotus Floridanus

SUBMITTER: Michael Stumpe

LAB HEAD: Dieter Kressler

PROVIDER: PXD028568 | Pride | 2022-02-16

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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Biomarkers in a socially exchanged /fluid reflect colony maturity, behavior, and distributed metabolism.

Hakala Sanja M SM Meurville Marie-Pierre MP Stumpe Michael M LeBoeuf Adria C AC

eLife 20211102

In cooperative systems exhibiting division of labor, such as microbial communities, multicellular organisms, and social insect colonies, individual units share costs and benefits through both task specialization and exchanged materials. Socially exchanged fluids, like seminal fluid and milk, allow individuals to molecularly influence conspecifics. Many social insects have a social circulatory system, where food and endogenously produced molecules are transferred mouth-to-mouth (stomodeal trophal ...[more]

PMID: 34725037

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