The Achilles' heel hypothesis: misinformed keystone individuals impair collective learning and reduce group success

Personality and morphology shape task participation, collective foraging and escape behaviour in the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola

(2015) Colin M. Wright et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The effect of group size and tutor-to-observer ratio on socially learned antipredator responses in woodfrog tadpoles

(2015) Douglas P. Chivers et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Warring arthropod societies: Social spider colonies can delay annihilation by predatory ants via reduced apparency and increased group size

(2015) Carl N. Keiser et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

The genetical theory of multilevel selection

(2015) A. Gardner   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

Social learning in a high-risk environment: incomplete disregard for the ‘minnow that cried pike’ results in culturally transmitted neophobia

(2015) Adam L. Crane et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The legacy effects of keystone individuals on collective behaviour scale to how long they remain within a group

(2015) Jonathan N. Pruitt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Interspecific social networks promote information transmission in wild songbirds

(2015) D. R. Farine et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Individual variation in exploratory behaviour improves speed and accuracy of collective nest selection by Argentine ants

(2014) Ashley Hui et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

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

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

The keystone individual concept: an ecological and evolutionary overview

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

Persistent social interactions beget more pronounced personalities in a desert-dwelling social spider

(2014) A. P. Modlmeier et al.   Biology Letters

Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds

(2014) Lucy M. Aplin et al.   NATURE

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

(2014) C. N. Keiser et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Individual-level personality influences social foraging and collective behaviour in wild birds

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

Social Network Analysis Shows Direct Evidence for Social Transmission of Tool Use in Wild Chimpanzees

(2014) Catherine Hobaiter et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

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

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

Individual personalities shape task differentiation in a social spider

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

Sexual cannibalism is associated with female behavioural type, hunger state and increased hatching success

(2012) Aric W. Berning et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Predator-induced changes in the boldness of naïve field crickets, Gryllus integer, depends on behavioural type

(2012) Petri T. Niemelä et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Spread of Social Information and Dynamics of Social Transmission within Drosophila Groups

(2012) Marine Battesti et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The effect of individual variation on the structure and function of interaction networks in harvester ants

(2011) N. Pinter-Wollman et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Uninformed Individuals Promote Democratic Consensus in Animal Groups

(2011) I. D. Couzin et al.   SCIENCE

Pedogenetic Sociogenesis via the “Sibling-route” and some Consequences for Stegodyphus Spiders

(2010) Wolfgang Wickler et al.   ETHOLOGY

Disease ecology meets ecological immunology: understanding the links between organismal immunity and infection dynamics in natural populations

(2010) Dana M. Hawley et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Detecting social transmission in networks

(2010) William Hoppitt et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Personality in the context of social networks

(2010) J. Krause et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How within-group behavioural variation and task efficiency enhance fitness in a social group

(2010) J. N. Pruitt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Behavioral correlations across activity, mating, exploration, aggression, and antipredator contexts in the European house cricket, Acheta domesticus

(2009) Alexander D. M. Wilson et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Limited male dispersal in a social spider with extreme inbreeding

(2009) YAEL LUBIN et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Network-based diffusion analysis: a new method for detecting social learning

(2009) M. Franz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Shoal composition determines foraging success in the guppy

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

Structure of the social network and its influence on transmission dynamics in a honeybee colony

(2008) Dhruba Naug   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Diversity of speed-accuracy strategies benefits social insects

(2008) James G. Burns et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sex ratio adjustment and kin discrimination in malaria parasites

(2008) Sarah E. Reece et al.   NATURE