The power of poop: Defecation behaviors and social hygiene in insects

Marissa E Cole; Javier A Ceja-Navarro; Aram Mikaelyan

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1009964

The power of poop: Defecation behaviors and social hygiene in insects

PLoS Pathog. 2021 Oct 28;17(10):e1009964. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009964. eCollection 2021 Oct.

Authors

Marissa E Cole¹, Javier A Ceja-Navarro^{2

3

4}, Aram Mikaelyan¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America.
² Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America.
³ Bioengineering and Biomedical Sciences Department, Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
⁴ Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Behavior, Animal / physiology*
Defecation / physiology*
Feces
Insecta / physiology*
Social Behavior*

Grants and funding

Work by AM is supported by National Institute of Food and Agriculture Hatch project accession number 1019324. Work performed by JACN at the Department of Energy Joint BioEnergy Institute (http://www.jbei.org), was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, through contract DE‐AC02‐05CH11231 between the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.