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SUBMITTER: McAfee A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5890279 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McAfee Alison A Chapman Abigail A Iovinella Immacolata I Gallagher-Kurtzke Ylonna Y Collins Troy F TF Higo Heather H Madilao Lufiani L LL Pelosi Paolo P Foster Leonard J LJ
Scientific reports 20180409 1
Eusocial insects live in teeming societies with thousands of their kin. In this crowded environment, workers combat disease by removing or burying their dead or diseased nestmates. For honey bees, we found that hygienic brood-removal behavior is triggered by two odorants - β-ocimene and oleic acid - which are released from brood upon freeze-killing. β-ocimene is a co-opted pheromone that normally signals larval food-begging, whereas oleic acid is a conserved necromone across arthropod taxa. Inte ...[more]