ArticleeLife2018
Individual crop loads provide local control for collective food intake in ant colonies.
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- Using pupae as appetitive reinforcement to study visual and tactile associative learning in the Ponerine ant Diacamma indicum.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- A Data-Driven Simulation of the Trophallactic Network and Intranidal Food Flow Dissemination in Ants.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Response thresholds alone cannot explain empirical patterns of division of labor in social insects.PLoS biology · 2021Article
- Integrating real-time data analysis into automatic tracking of social insects.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
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- Formicine ants swallow their highly acidic poison for gut microbial selection and control.eLife · 2020Article
- Behaviours indicating cannibalistic necrophagy in ants are modulated by the perception of pathogen infection level.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Growth and survival of the superorganism: Ant colony macronutrient intake and investment.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- A spatiotemporal analysis of the food dissemination process and the trophallactic network in the ant Lasius niger.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- The multi-dimensional nature of information drives prioritization of private over social information in ants.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Colony entropy-Allocation of goods in ant colonies.PLoS computational biology · 2019Article
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Nutritional regulation by ants emerges from a distributed process: food is collected by a small fraction of workers, stored within the crops of individuals, and spread via local ant-to-ant interactions. The precise individual-level underpinnings of this collective regulation have remained unclear mainly due to difficulties in measuring food within ants' crops. Here we image fluorescent liquid food in individually tagged
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