Negative feedback from maternal signals reduces false alarms by collectively signalling offspring

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1743, 2012, Pages 3820-3826

  Hamel, Jennifer A ^a   Cocroft, Reginald B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective behaviour; False alarm; Information cascade; Negative feedback; Parent offspring communication

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INSECT; MATERNAL EFFECT; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; SIGNAL;

EID: 84864941011     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1181     Document Type: Article

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