Distributed nestmate recognition in ants

Distributed information processing in biological and computational systems

(2015) Saket Navlakha et al.   COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM

Variation in nestmate recognition ability among polymorphic leaf-cutting ant workers

(2014) Janni Larsen et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

The Ecology of Collective Behavior

(2014) Deborah M. Gordon   PLOS BIOLOGY

Neural Mechanisms and Information Processing in Recognition Systems

(2014) Mamiko Ozaki et al.   Insects

Density of Antennal Sensilla Influences Efficacy of Communication in a Social Insect

(2013) Katherine P. Gill et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Chemical structure of odorants and perceptual similarity in ants

(2013) N. Bos et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Confirmation Bias in Studies of Nestmate Recognition: A Cautionary Note for Research into the Behaviour of Animals

(2013) Ellen van Wilgenburg et al.   PLoS One

Aggression is task dependent in the red harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus)

(2012) Shelby J. Sturgis et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Collective retention and transmission of chemical signals in a social insect

(2012) Katherine P. Gill et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Tradeoffs, competition, and coexistence in eastern deciduous forest ant communities

(2012) Katharine L. Stuble et al.   OECOLOGIA

Model of collective decision-making in nestmate recognition fails to account for individual discriminator responses and non-independent discriminator errors

(2011) Margaret J. Couvillon et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Learning and perceptual similarity among cuticular hydrocarbons in ants

(2011) Nick Bos et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Distributed representation of social odors indicates parallel processing in the antennal lobe of ants

(2011) Andreas Simon Brandstaetter et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Friends and Foes from an Ant Brain's Point of View – Neuronal Correlates of Colony Odors in a Social Insect

(2011) Andreas Simon Brandstaetter et al.   PLoS One

A Biological Solution to a Fundamental Distributed Computing Problem

(2011) Y. Afek et al.   SCIENCE

Know thine enemy: why some weaver ants do but others do not

(2010) Philip S. Newey et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Dear enemy phenomenon in the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex lobicornis: behavioral and genetic evidence

(2010) Romina D. Dimarco et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Nestmate recognition in social insects: overcoming physiological constraints with collective decision making

(2010) Brian R. Johnson et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Hydrocarbons detection levels in ants

(2010) K. Ichinose et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Not one odour but two: A new model for nestmate recognition

(2010) Philip Newey   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Rapid Decision-Making with Side-Specific Perceptual Discrimination in Ants

(2010) Nathalie Stroeymeyt et al.   PLoS One

Age and task efficiency in the ant Pheidole dentata: young minor workers are not specialist nurses

(2009) Mario L. Muscedere et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Experience influences aggressive behaviour in the Argentine ant

(2009) E. Van Wilgenburg et al.   Biology Letters

Ants recognize foes and not friends

(2009) F. J. Guerrieri et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Surveys with negative questions for sensitive items

(2009) Fernando Esponda et al.   STATISTICS & PROBABILITY LETTERS

Nestmate recognition in a stingless bee: does the similarity of chemical cues determine guard acceptance?

(2008) Tulio M. Nunes et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR