ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TROPHALLAXIS
C19/20: from New Latin, from tropho- + Greek allaxis exchange, from allassein to change, from allos other.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TROPHALLAXIS»
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Animal Behavior Desk Reference: A Dictionary of Animal ...
trophallaxis n. 1. In social wasps: Larval donation of salivary secretions to their
adult winged sisters (Rouband 1916 in Wilson 1975, 30). 2. In Ants and some
species of wasps: Colony members' exchange of salivary secretions (Wheeler
1918).
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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
In later applying the name trophallaxis to the bond, Wheeler (1918) agreed with
Roubaud's interpretation and extended it to ants. But then, stung by criticisms
from Erich Wasmann and A. Reichensperger, who were promoting Wasmann's
rival ...
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Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbioses, Ecology
The evolutionary transition from horizontal transmission of mutualists via
coprophagy, to vertical transmission via proctodeal trophallaxis is not a difficult
one. Although the physical and chemical properties of the digestive product may
differ, ...
Takuya Abe, David Edward Bignell, Masahiko Higashi, 2000
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Symbiotic Multi-Robot Organisms: Reliability, Adaptability, ...
In biology, the term Trophallaxis denotes the mouth-to-mouth (stomodeal (Korst &
Velthuis, 1982)) and anus-to-mouth (proctodeal (Cabrera & Rust, 1999))
exchange and/or transfer of food among conspecifics, which is frequently
observed at ...
Paul Levi, Serge Kernbach, 2010
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Insect Evolutionary Ecology: Proceedings of the Royal ...
rapidly, because both their arrival in the colony and their subsequent spread via
trophallaxis remain unnoticed. High degrees of trophallaxis normally characterize
advanced social insects with large colonies. In bees, trophallaxis seems mainly ...
Royal Entomological Society of London. Symposium, Mark Fellowes, Graham Holloway, 2005
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Cockroaches: Ecology, Behavior, and Natural History
A newly molted individual must reestablish its symbiosis by proctodeal
trophallaxis from a donor nestmate, making group living mandatory. In the classic
literature, this codependence of colony members was thought to be the main
precondition ...
William J. Bell, Louis M. Roth, Christine A. Nalepa, 2007
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Distributed Autonomous Robotic System 6
Collective. Energy. Distribution: Maintaining. the. Energy. Balance. in. Distributed.
Autonomous. Robots. using. Trophallaxis. Chris MELHUISH1 and Masao KUBO2
1 IAS lab., CEMS Faculty, University of the West of England, Chris.
Richard Alami, Raja Chatila, Hajime Asama, 2008
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Articles on Insect Ecology, Including: Pollinator, ...
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Back | Home | Up | Next Trophallaxis is the regurgitation of food by one animal for
another. It is most highly developed in social insects such as the ants, in which
individual colony members store food in their crops and regularly exchange it ...
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Six Legs Better: A Cultural History of Myrmecology
He anticipated a potential objection to his paper in the assiduous care expended
by ants on pupae; these did not produce an exudate, and thus the centrality of
trophallaxis to nursing behaviors might be questioned. Wheeler suggested in ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TROPHALLAXIS»
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[Ant Control] Carpenter Ants & Houses: A Rotten Love Story
In fact, adult ants and larvae feed liquids to each other all the time through a special type of regurgitation called trophallaxis. It helps foragers communicate about ... «PCT Magazine, Jul 15»
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Stamps School of Art and Design graduate student Mike Bianco presents part of his work titled Trophallaxis which concerns the difference in Honey depending ... «The Michigan Daily, Mar 15»
Sim City Studio Closes: The Sim Game Sequels We'll Never See
Having said that, Sim Ant was the only game I can think of that let you engage in “trophallaxis”. That's “anus-to-mouth feeding”, for the uninitiated. Perhaps that's ... «Gizmodo UK, Mar 15»
Lonely Ants Walk Themselves to Death
Akiko's team even suggests that the sharing of that regurgitated food, a process called trophallaxis, may be a way for these morsels to become more digestible. «Nature World News, Feb 15»
Gyorsan elpusztulnak a magányos hangyák
Egyik hipotézisük szerint a visszaöklendezett táplálék megosztása (trophallaxis) elősegítheti az élelemmorzsák emészthetőbbé tételét. Az is elképzelhető, hogy ... «Híradó, Feb 15»
Lonely ants die young and hungry
One hypothesis proposed by Laurent's team suggest that sharing of regurgitated food, a process called trophallaxis, may be a way for morsels of food to become ... «ABC Science Online, Feb 15»
Ask the Goat: VESPA Power Products
... the wasp extract peptide from the larvae in a symbiotic relationship called trophallaxis. This allows the the adult wasp to metabolize the fats stored in its thorax. «Sanford Herald, Dec 14»
The increasing problem of yellow jackets and hornets
And the developing larvae secrete a sugary substance, in a process called -trophallaxis, that provides energy to the workers who feed them. When the brood ... «Good Fruit Grower, Aug 14»
The stingers of summer: Are bees, wasps, hornets and yellowjackets …
In an amazing exchange of material called trophallaxis, the larvae secrete a sugar material relished by the workers. The queen, all the while, continues to lay ... «Peterborough Examiner, Aug 14»
Beehive Air-Conditioning
“When foragers return to the hive, the water is regurgitated and passed by trophallaxis, a fancy word for mouth to mouth, from the forager bee to a younger hive ... «New York Times, Jul 14»
