Mothers never miss the moment: A fine-tuned mechanism for vertical symbiont transmission in a subsocial insect

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 293-300

  Hosokawa, Takahiro ^a   Hironaka, Mantaro ^b   Mukai, Hiromi ^c   Inadomi, Koichi ^c   Suzuki, Nobuhiko ^c   Fukatsu, Takema ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Benitsuchiphilus tojoi; Gut symbiont; Maternal care; Mother offspring interaction; Parastrachia japonensis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; EGG DEVELOPMENT; EUSOCIALITY; EXCRETION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD PROVISIONING; HATCHING; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; INSECT; MATERNAL CARE; MOVEMENT; MUCUS; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; SECRETION; SYNCHRONY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

HEXAPODA; PARASTRACHIA JAPONENSIS;

EID: 83555173513     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.11.006     Document Type: Article

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