Synchronized Moulting Controlled by Communication in Group-Living Collembola
Abstract
Group-living Collembola of the genus Hypogastrura coordinate their moulting by communication. Animals of different ages and moulting rhythms synchronized the moulting rhythms when combined in a single culture. This synchronization is apparently not dependent on external stimuli but is coordinated by chemical communication among these insects.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- January 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.219.4581.193
- Bibcode:
- 1983Sci...219..193P