Pith Number

pith:IWNJF6VR

pith:2012:IWNJF6VRLGEXTBMGPWTBLUKKHP

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Individual behavioral rules sustain the cell allocation pattern in the combs of honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera)

Kathryn J. Montovan, Laura E. Jones, Nathaniel J. Karst, Thomas D. Seeley

arxiv:1211.4298 v2 · 2012-11-19 · q-bio.PE · q-bio.QM

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\pithnumber{IWNJF6VRLGEXTBMGPWTBLUKKHP}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:17:57.060326Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

459a92fab159897985867da615d14a3bc43a0a35e81f08947763dc13580f2d8d

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.4298 · arxiv_version: 1211.4298v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.4298 · pith_short_12: IWNJF6VRLGEX · pith_short_16: IWNJF6VRLGEXTBMG · pith_short_8: IWNJF6VR

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IWNJF6VRLGEXTBMGPWTBLUKKHP \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 459a92fab159897985867da615d14a3bc43a0a35e81f08947763dc13580f2d8d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "49e6010def2cb0ebb54fa5d689855fce359341646469bd5479f5e623f2cbd01b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-19T04:19:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "48c7017b9ec9551c5ff7e880ccd1738bc2bb20dba677713cbd287031cfbeacdb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.4298",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}