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Abstract
Insect societies are often described as superorganisms, and there are many functional parallels between organisms and superorganisms. Elegant work using ants shows that nutrient regulation, which occurs in many non-social animals, can also occur at the colony-level.Mesh：
Year: 2009 PMID： 19439258 DOI： 10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.033
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Biol ISSN： 0960-9822 Impact factor: 10.834