ArticleeLife2016
A locally-blazed ant trail achieves efficient collective navigation despite limited information.
Article in eLife, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.
- Combining social and private information: How ants use pheromones and learnt cues to navigate.Learning & behavior · 2026Review
- Comparing cooperative geometric puzzle solving in ants versus humans.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Potential evidence of reengagement attempts following interruptions of a triadic social game in bonobos and chimpanzees.PloS one · 2025Article
- Ants engaged in cooperative food transport show anticipatory and nest-oriented clearing of the obstacles surrounding the food: goal-directed behavior emerging from collective cognition.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Individual error correction drives responsive self-assembly of army ant scaffolds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Deformed Wing Virus in Two Widespread Invasive Ants: Geographical Distribution, Prevalence, and Phylogeny.Viruses · 2020Article
- Ant collective cognition allows for efficient navigation through disordered environments.eLife · 2020Article
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- Food Transport of Red Imported Fire Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on Vertical Surfaces.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- A distributed algorithm to maintain and repair the trail networks of arboreal ants.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Bi-stability in cooperative transport by ants in the presence of obstacles.PLoS computational biology · 2018Article
- Individual versus collective cognition in social insects.The Journal of experimental biology · 2017Review
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Any organism faces sensory and cognitive limitations which may result in maladaptive decisions. Such limitations are prominent in the context of groups where the relevant information at the individual level may not coincide with collective requirements. Here, we study the navigational decisions exhibited by
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