Journal
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE
Volume 17, Issue 168, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2020.0187
Keywords
bee; excitable medium; crystal; comb
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- Spanish MINCINN [FIS2016-77692-C2-2-P, CGL2017-85118-P]
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Stingless bees of the genusTetragonulaconstruct a brood comb with a spiral or a target pattern architecture in three dimensions. Crystals possess these same patterns on the molecular scale. Here, we show that the same excitable-medium dynamics governs both crystal nucleation and growth and comb construction inTetragonula, so that a minimal coupled-map lattice model based on crystal growth explains how these bees produce the structures seen in their bee combs.
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