Alarm communication predates eusociality in termites

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41320/23:97490 RIV/60460709:41330/23:97490 RIV/60460709:41340/23:97490 RIV/68407700:21230/23:00366131

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04438-5" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04438-5</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04438-5" target="_blank" >10.1038/s42003-023-04438-5</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Alarm communication predates eusociality in termites

Original language description

Termites (Blattodea: Isoptera) have evolved specialized defensive strategies for colony protection. Alarm communication enables workers to escape threats while soldiers are recruited to the source of disturbance. Here, we study the vibroacoustic and chemical alarm communication in the wood roach Cryptocercus and in 20 termite species including seven of the nine termite families, all life-types, and all feeding and nesting habits. Our multidisciplinary approach shows that vibratory alarm signals represent an ethological synapomorphy of termites and Cryptocercus. In contrast, chemical alarms have evolved independently in several cockroach groups and at least twice in termites. Vibroacoustic alarm signaling patterns are the most complex in Neoisoptera, in which they are often combined with chemical signals. The alarm characters correlate to phylogenetic position, food type and hardness, foraging area size, and nesting habits. Overall, species of Neoisoptera have developed the most sophisticated communication system amongst termites, potentially contributing to their ecological success.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10406 - Analytical chemistry

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Communications Biology

ISSN

2399-3642

e-ISSN

2399-3642

Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

83

UT code for WoS article

000919363900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85146724208