Spatial scales of desert locust gregarization
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Serotonin mediates behavioral gregarization underlying swarm formation in desert locusts.
Desert locusts, Schistocerca gregaria, show extreme phenotypic plasticity, transforming between a little-seen solitarious phase and the notorious swarming gregarious phase depending on population density. An essential tipping point in the process of swarm formation is the initial switch from strong mutual aversion in solitarious locusts to coherent group formation and greater activity in gregar...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.22.13052