Habitat structure helps guide the emergence of colony-level personality in social spiders

Personality in social insects: How does worker personality determine colony personality?

(2016) Noa Pinter-Wollman   Current Zoology

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

Species-specific influence of group composition on collective behaviors in ants

(2014) Andreas P. Modlmeier et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

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

Exploring How a Shift in the Physical Environment Shapes Individual and Group Behavior across Two Social Contexts

(2014) Carl N. Keiser et al.   ETHOLOGY

Be meek or be bold? A colony-level behavioural syndrome in ants

(2014) S. E. Bengston 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

Behavioural syndromes and social insects: personality at multiple levels

(2013) Jennifer M. Jandt et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

A real-time eco-evolutionary dead-end strategy is mediated by the traits of lineage progenitors and interactions with colony invaders

(2013) Jonathan N. Pruitt   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Harvester Ant Colony Variation in Foraging Activity and Response to Humidity

(2013) Deborah M. Gordon et al.   PLoS One

Females of a tree cricket prefer larger males but not the lower frequency male calls that indicate large body size

(2012) Rittik Deb et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Nest site and weather affect the personality of harvester ant colonies

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

Characterizing the Collective Personality of Ant Societies: Aggressive Colonies Do Not Abandon Their Home

(2012) Inon Scharf et al.   PLoS One

Jack of All Trades, Master of All: A Positive Association between Habitat Niche Breadth and Foraging Performance in Pit-Building Antlion Larvae

(2012) Erez David Barkae et al.   PLoS One

Collective personalities in honeybee colonies are linked to colony fitness

(2011) Margaret K. Wray et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Individual- and condition-dependent effects on habitat choice and choosiness

(2011) Jonathan N. Pruitt et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Temperature Mediates Shifts in Individual Aggressiveness, Activity Level, and Social Behavior in a Spider

(2011) Jonathan N. Pruitt et al.   ETHOLOGY

Influence of body size and level of cooperation on the prey capture efficiency of two sympatric social spiders exhibiting an included niche pattern

(2011) Jennifer Guevara et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Site Selection and Foraging in the Eresid Spider Stegodyphus tentoriicola

(2011) Jasmin Ruch et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR

Within-group behavioral variation promotes biased task performance and the emergence of a defensive caste in a social spider

(2010) Jonathan N. Pruitt et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Shoal composition determines foraging success in the guppy

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

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