Leadership – not followership – determines performance in ant teams

Tandem‐Running and Scouting Behavior are Characterized by Up‐Regulation of Learning and Memory Formation Genes within the Ant Brain

(2019) Austin Alleman et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The Role of Individual Heterogeneity in Collective Animal Behaviour

(2019) Jolle W. Jolles et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Animal expertise: mechanisms, ecology and evolution

(2018) Reuven Dukas   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Ant nurse workers exhibit behavioural and transcriptomic signatures of specialization on larval stage

(2018) Justin T. Walsh et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The influence of the few: a stable ‘oligarchy’ controls information flow in house-hunting ants

(2018) Thomas O. Richardson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Spatial fidelity of workers predicts collective response to disturbance in a social insect

(2018) James D. Crall et al.   Nature Communications

Information Certainty Determines Social and Private Information Use in Ants

(2018) Nathalie Stroeymeyt et al.   Scientific Reports

Individual differences in learning and biogenic amine levels influence the behavioural division between foraging honeybee scouts and recruits

(2018) Chelsea N. Cook et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Who needs ‘lazy’ workers? Inactive workers act as a ‘reserve’ labor force replacing active workers, but inactive workers are not replaced when they are removed

(2017) Daniel Charbonneau et al.   PLoS One

Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation

(2016) Oscar Venter et al.   Nature Communications

The influence of nutritional state on individual and group movement behaviour in shoals of crimson-spotted rainbowfish (Melanotaenia duboulayi)

(2015) Matthew J. Hansen et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Revealing the hidden networks of interaction in mobile animal groups allows prediction of complex behavioral contagion

(2015) Sara Brin Rosenthal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Context-dependent hierarchies in pigeons

(2013) M. Nagy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Behavioural plasticity in the fanning response of bumblebee workers: impact of experience and rate of temperature change

(2012) C. Westhus et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Genetic polyethism in the polyandrous desert ant Cataglyphis cursor

(2012) Pierre-André Eyer et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

How is activity distributed among and within tasks in Temnothorax ants?

(2012) Noa Pinter-Wollman et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Do ants need to be old and experienced to teach?

(2012) E. L. Franklin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Basketball Teams as Strategic Networks

(2012) Jennifer H. Fewell et al.   PLoS One

The Ecology of Nest Movement in Social Insects

(2011) Terrence P. McGlynn   Annual Review of Entomology

Multimodel inference in ecology and evolution: challenges and solutions

(2011) C. E. GRUEBER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Knowledgeable individuals lead collective decisions in ants

(2011) N. Stroeymeyt et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Leadership in elephants: the adaptive value of age

(2011) K. McComb et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Blinkered teaching: tandem running by visually impaired ants

(2010) Elizabeth L. Franklin et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

AIC model selection and multimodel inference in behavioral ecology: some background, observations, and comparisons

(2010) Kenneth P. Burnham et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

A brief guide to model selection, multimodel inference and model averaging in behavioural ecology using Akaike’s information criterion

(2010) Matthew R. E. Symonds et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Learning and Task Interference by Corpse-removal Specialists in Honey Bee Colonies

(2010) Stephen T. Trumbo et al.   ETHOLOGY

Ant search strategies after interrupted tandem runs

(2010) N. R. Franks et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Hierarchical group dynamics in pigeon flocks

(2010) Máté Nagy et al.   NATURE

Life history of learning: performance curves of honeybees in settings that minimize the role of learning

(2008) Reuven Dukas   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR