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Nestmate recognition

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-018446

A discrimination behavior exhibited by social insects belonging to different colonies, mediated by odors, chemical signals, or pheromone differences between individual colony members.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-018446
FieldEnvironment
SubjectBiological substances
ReferencesUSDA National Agricultural Library Glossary
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-018446",
  "term": "Nestmate recognition",
  "field": "Environment",
  "term_source": "Nestmate Recognition",
  "definition": "A discrimination behavior exhibited by social insects belonging to different colonies, mediated by odors, chemical signals, or pheromone differences between individual colony members.",
  "subject": "Biological substances",
  "references": [
    "USDA National Agricultural Library Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/nestmate-recognition/"
}

Record 17,956 of 29,894 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.