The physics of cooperative transport in groups of ants

A comparative approach to cooperative transport in ants: individual persistence correlates with group coordination

(2017) H. F. McCreery   INSECTES SOCIAUX

A neural circuit architecture for angular integration in Drosophila

(2017) Jonathan Green et al.   NATURE

The acacia ants revisited: convergent evolution and biogeographic context in an iconic ant/plant mutualism

(2017) Philip S. Ward et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Control of finite critical behaviour in a small-scale social system

(2017) Bryan C. Daniels et al.   Nature Communications

Movement Coordination in Human–Robot Teams: A Dynamical Systems Approach

(2016) Tariq Iqbal et al.   IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Cooperative transport by the ant Novomessor cockerelli

(2016) A. Buffin et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Collective strategy for obstacle navigation during cooperative transport by ants

(2016) Helen F. McCreery et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Long-range acoustic interactions in insect swarms: an adaptive gravity model

(2016) Dan Gorbonos et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Heterogeneous Preference and Local Nonlinearity in Consensus Decision Making

(2016) Andrew T. Hartnett et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Emergent oscillations assist obstacle negotiation during ant cooperative transport

(2016) Aviram Gelblum et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A locally-blazed ant trail achieves efficient collective navigation despite limited information

(2016) Ehud Fonio et al.   eLife

Bats Aggregate to Improve Prey Search but Might Be Impaired when Their Density Becomes Too High

(2015) Noam Cvikel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Predation on large millipedes and self-assembling chains in Leptogenys ants from Cambodia

(2015) C. Peeters et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Limit-cycle phase in driven-dissipative spin systems

(2015) Ching-Kit Chan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW A

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

Ant groups optimally amplify the effect of transiently informed individuals

(2015) Aviram Gelblum et al.   Nature Communications

Locust Collective Motion and Its Modeling

(2015) Gil Ariel et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Bidirectional cargo transport: moving beyond tug of war

(2014) William O. Hancock   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Finite-Size Scaling as a Way to Probe Near-Criticality in Natural Swarms

(2014) Alessandro Attanasi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Information-based fitness and the emergence of criticality in living systems

(2014) J. Hidalgo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Role of projection in the control of bird flocks

(2014) D. J. G. Pearce et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Social interactions dominate speed control in poising natural flocks near criticality

(2014) W. Bialek et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Design of ant-inspired stochastic control policies for collective transport by robotic swarms

(2014) Sean Wilson et al.   Swarm Intelligence

Prey escorting behavior and possible convergent evolution of foraging recruitment mechanisms in an invasive ant

(2013) T. J. Czaczkes et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Cooperative transport in ants: a review of proximate mechanisms

(2013) H. F. McCreery et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Desert ants achieve reliable recruitment across noisy interactions

(2013) N. Razin et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Quantum Many-Body Dynamics in Optomechanical Arrays

(2013) Max Ludwig et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Collective States, Multistability and Transitional Behavior in Schooling Fish

(2013) Kolbjørn Tunstrøm et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Collective cell migration: leadership, invasion and segregation

(2012) A. J. Kabla   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Collective motion

(2012) Tamás Vicsek et al.   PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS

Statistical mechanics for natural flocks of birds

(2012) W. Bialek et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Propagating waves in starling, Sturnus vulgaris, flocks under predation

(2011) Andrea Procaccini et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Are Biological Systems Poised at Criticality?

(2011) Thierry Mora et al.   JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS

Experimental Study and Modeling of Group Retrieval in Ants as an Approach to Collective Transport in Swarm Robotic Systems

(2011) Spring Berman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE

Motor Coordination via a Tug-of-War Mechanism Drives Bidirectional Vesicle Transport

(2010) Adam G. Hendricks et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Simple rules result in the adaptive turning of food items to reduce drag during cooperative food transport in the ant Pheidole oxyops

(2010) T. J. Czaczkes et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Scale-free correlations in starling flocks

(2010) A. Cavagna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Navigation in human crowds; testing the many-wrongs principle

(2009) Jolyon J. Faria et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Collective Motion and Cannibalism in Locust Migratory Bands

(2008) Sepideh Bazazi et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Trail pheromones of ants

(2008) E. DAVID MORGAN   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Interaction ruling animal collective behavior depends on topological rather than metric distance: Evidence from a field study

(2008) M. Ballerini et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Information transfer in moving animal groups

(2008) David Sumpter et al.   THEORY IN BIOSCIENCES