Differential responses to chemical cues correlate with task performance in ant foragers

Collective personalities: present knowledge and new frontiers

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Tasks Performed by Different Groups of Foragers and Regulation of Foraging Activity in the Mediterranean Harvest Ant Messor wasmanni (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

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Limited size-related variation in behavioral performance among workers of the exceptionally polymorphic ant Pheidole rhea

(2018) D. G. Gordon et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Stress and early experience underlie dominance status and division of labour in a clonal insect

(2018) Abel Bernadou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

From inside to outside and back again: changing waste dump formation, defecation and worker localization in a clonal ant

(2017) A. Bernadou et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Heritable natural variation of an anxiety-like behavior in larval zebrafish

(2017) Mahendra Wagle et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROGENETICS

Colony-level behavioural variation correlates with differences in expression of the foraging gene in red imported fire ants

(2017) Alison A. Bockoven et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Task specialization influences nestmate recognition ability in ants

(2016) Janni Larsen et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

A comparative perspective on the ecology of morphological diversification in complex societies: nesting ecology and soldier evolution in the turtle ants

(2016) Scott Powell   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Nutrient stores predict task behaviors in diverse ant species

(2016) R. E. Silberman et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Behavioural effects of juvenile hormone and their influence on division of labour in leaf-cutting ant societies

(2016) Victoria C. Norman et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Pheromone trail following in the antLasius niger: high accuracy and variability but no effect of task state

(2016) Tomer J. Czaczkes et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Lifespan behavioural and neural resilience in a social insect

(2016) Ysabel Milton Giraldo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

From division of labor to the collective behavior of social insects

(2015) Deborah M. Gordon   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Diversity in identity: behavioral flexibility, dominance, and age polyethism in a clonal ant

(2015) Abel Bernadou et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Expression of the Foraging Gene Is Associated with Age Polyethism, Not Task Preference, in the Ant Cardiocondyla obscurior

(2015) Jan Oettler et al.   PLoS One

Worker senescence and the sociobiology of aging in ants

(2014) Ysabel Milton Giraldo et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Pheromone communication in ants: a detailed analysis of concentration-dependent decisions in three species

(2014) Wolfhard von Thienen et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Old and wise but not size: factors affecting threat response behaviour and nestmate recognition in Acromyrmex echinatior leaf-cutting ants

(2014) V. C. Norman et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Worker Personality and Its Association with Spatially Structured Division of Labor

(2014) Tobias Pamminger et al.   PLoS One

Interindividual variability in social insects - proximate causes and ultimate consequences

(2013) Raphaël Jeanson et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Division of labor is associated with age-independent changes in ovarian activity in Pogonomyrmex californicus harvester ants

(2013) Adam G. Dolezal et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Tracking Individuals Shows Spatial Fidelity Is a Key Regulator of Ant Social Organization

(2013) D. P. Mersch et al.   SCIENCE

Worker division of labor and endocrine physiology are associated in the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex californicus

(2012) A. G. Dolezal et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Experience, corpulence and decision making in ant foraging

(2012) E. J. H. Robinson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Division of Labor in the Hyperdiverse Ant Genus Pheidole Is Associated with Distinct Subcaste- and Age-Related Patterns of Worker Brain Organization

(2012) Mario L. Muscedere et al.   PLoS One

Behavioural syndromes at multiple scales in Myrmica ants

(2011) Ben B. Chapman et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Serotonin modulates worker responsiveness to trail pheromone in the ant Pheidole dentata

(2011) Mario L. Muscedere et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

The Organization of Foraging in the Fire Ant,Solenopsis invicta

(2011) Walter R. Tschinkel   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Coming of age in an ant colony: cephalic muscle maturation accompanies behavioral development in Pheidole dentata

(2011) Mario L. Muscedere et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Genetic polyethism in leaf-cutting ants

(2010) Sarah J. Waddington et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Decision making in ant foragers (Lasius niger) facing conflicting private and social information

(2010) Christoph Grüter et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Effect of past and present behavioural specialization on brain levels of biogenic amines in workers of the red wood ant Formica polyctena

(2010) ANDRZEJ WNUK et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Hydrocarbons in the Ant Lasius niger: From the Cuticle to the Nest and Home Range Marking

(2009) Alain Lenoir et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Physiology as a caste-defining feature

(2008) E. J. H. Robinson   INSECTES SOCIAUX

The Old Ladies of the Seed Harvester ant Pogonomyrmex Rugosus: Foraging Performed by Two Groups of Workers

(2008) Jan Oettler et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR

Trail pheromones of ants

(2008) E. DAVID MORGAN   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Division of labour among workers with different life expectancy in the ant Myrmica scabrinodis

(2007) Dawid Moroń et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR