The chemical ecology of locust cannibalism

Iain D Couzin^{1

2

3}, Einat Couzin-Fuchs^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Collective Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany.
² Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
³ Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.

Iain D Couzin et al. Science. 2023.

. 2023 May 5;380(6644):454-455.

doi: 10.1126/science.adh5264. Epub 2023 May 4.

Iain D Couzin^{1

2

3}, Einat Couzin-Fuchs^{2

3}

¹ Department of Collective Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany.
² Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
³ Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.

Abstract

An anticannibalistic signaling pathway offers a new understanding of locust swarm formation.