Melanie Bey- PhD Student at University of Freiburg
Melanie Bey
- PhD Student at University of Freiburg
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Introduction
Doctoral candidate using molecular and behavioral tools to study learning process and seek to understand how ants acquire such olfactory discrimination abilitie
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Recognition protects biological systems of all scales, from cells to societies. Social insects recognize their nestmates by colony-specific chemical labels, which individuals store as "templates" in their memories. The distributed model of nestmate recognition predicts that individual experiences cause variation between the recognition templates th...
Previous research in our laboratories has demonstrated that, within each colony of Cataglyphis piliscapa (formerly C. cursor) ants, only some individuals are capable of performing a complex sequence of behavioral patterns to free trapped nestmates—a sequence that not only is memory-dependent but also is responsive to the particular circumstances of...
Cannibalism is a quite common behaviour in animals that can have survival value when food is scarce or in the case of overpopulation. Conversely, cannibalism can also increase pathogen transmission and reduce fitness. In primates, some cases of cannibalism are associated with infanticide or are performed by mothers after their newborn has died (fil...
