What Is Trophallaxis?/ Curr. Biol., Dec. 18, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 24)

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Adria LeBoeuf explains what's going on when ants and other insects look like they are kissing. 

For more information on this fascinating behavior, read the associated Quick Guide in Current Biology at http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31384-2.

For more on what’s passed during trophallaxis: https://elifesciences.org/articles/20375.

More on the trophallaxis tracking system: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep12496.

A.C. LeBoeuf (2017). Trophallaxis. Curr. Biol. 27.

And read more great research at http://www.cell.com/current-biology/home.

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