Personality composition is more important than group size in determining collective foraging behaviour in the wild

The personality types of key catalytic individuals shape colonies' collective behaviour and success

(2014) Jonathan N. Pruitt et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Studying personality variation in invertebrates: why bother?

(2014) Simona Kralj-Fišer et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The keystone individual concept: an ecological and evolutionary overview

(2014) Andreas P. Modlmeier et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Exploring the effects of individual traits and within-colony variation on task differentiation and collective behavior in a desert social spider

(2014) Carl N. Keiser et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

A critical number of workers in a honeybee colony triggers investment in reproduction

(2014) Michael L. Smith et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Animal personality aligns task specialization and task proficiency in a spider society

(2014) Colin M. Wright et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evidence of social niche construction: persistent and repeated social interactions generate stronger personalities in a social spider

(2014) K. L. Laskowski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Linking levels of personality: personalities of the ‘average’ and ‘most extreme’ group members predict colony-level personality

(2013) Jonathan N. Pruitt et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Individual personality traits influence group exploration in a feral guppy population

(2013) C. Brown et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Multilevel selection and effects of keystone hyperaggressive males on mating success and behavior in stream water striders

(2013) A. T. Chang et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Differences in group size and the extent of individual participation in group hunting may contribute to differential prey-size use among social spiders

(2013) G. Harwood et al.   Biology Letters

Colony life history and lifetime reproductive success of red harvester ant colonies

(2013) Krista K. Ingram et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The rewards of restraint in the collective regulation of foraging by harvester ant colonies

(2013) Deborah M. Gordon   NATURE

Personality-dependent dispersal cancelled under predation risk

(2013) J. Cote et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Individual personalities shape task differentiation in a social spider

(2013) L. Grinsted et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ecological implications of behavioural syndromes

(2012) Andrew Sih et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Behavioural traits of colony founders affect the life history of their colonies

(2012) Jonathan N. Pruitt   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Task specialization in two social spiders,Stegodyphus sarasinorum(Eresidae) andAnelosimus eximius(Theridiidae)

(2012) V. Settepani et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Diverse societies are more productive: a lesson from ants

(2012) A. P. Modlmeier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social Personality Polymorphism and the Spread of Invasive Species: A Model

(2011) Sean Fogarty et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Group Size and Its Effects on Collective Organization

(2011) Anna Dornhaus et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Division of labor increases with colony size in the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex californicus

(2011) C. Tate Holbrook et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Social Feedback and the Emergence of Leaders and Followers

(2009) Jennifer L. Harcourt et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The effect of personality on social foraging: shy barnacle geese scrounge more

(2009) R. H. J. M. Kurvers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Influence of the social context on division of labor in ant foundress associations

(2008) Raphaël Jeanson et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Shoal composition determines foraging success in the guppy

(2008) John R.G. Dyer et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Consensus Decision Making by Fish

(2008) David J.T. Sumpter et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cooperative capture of large prey solves scaling challenge faced by spider societies

(2008) E. C. Yip et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Specialization Does Not Predict Individual Efficiency in an Ant

(2008) Anna Dornhaus   PLOS BIOLOGY