Social complexity influences brain investment and neural operation costs in ants

Insect societies and the social brain

(2016) Sarah M Farris   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Mechanisms underpinning aggregation and collective movement by insect groups

(2016) Jerome Buhl et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Neuroanatomical and Morphological Trait Clusters in the Ant Genus Pheidole: Evidence for Modularity and Integration in Brain Structure

(2015) Iulian Ilieş et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Distributed cognition and social brains: reductions in mushroom body investment accompanied the origins of sociality in wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

(2015) Sean O'Donnell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Specialization and group size: brain and behavioural correlates of colony size in ants lacking morphological castes

(2015) S. Amador-Vargas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Polymorphism and division of labour in a socially complex ant: neuromodulation of aggression in the Australian weaver ant,Oecophylla smaragdina

(2015) J. Frances Kamhi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Intra-individual variability in fecal cortisol metabolites varies with lifetime exploration and reproductive life history in eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus)

(2014) P.-O. Montiglio et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Physical and Biological Determinants of Collective Behavioural Dynamics in Complex Systems: Pulling Chain Formation in the Nest-Weaving Ant Oecophylla smaragdina

(2014) Thomas Bochynek et al.   PLoS One

Socially responsive effects of brain oxidative metabolism on aggression

(2014) H. Li-Byarlay et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Colony size predicts division of labour in attine ants

(2014) H. Ferguson-Gow et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Costs and benefits of evolving a larger brain: doubts over the evidence that large brains lead to better cognition

(2013) Susan D. Healy et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Organization and Functional Roles of the Central Complex in the Insect Brain

(2013) Keram Pfeiffer et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Brood-care experience, nursing performance, and neural development in the ant Pheidole dentata

(2013) Mario L. Muscedere et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Biogenic Amines and Collective Organization in a Superorganism: Neuromodulation of Social Behavior in Ants

(2013) J. Frances Kamhi et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

The Effect of Cell Size and Channel Density on Neuronal Information Encoding and Energy Efficiency

(2013) Biswa Sengupta et al.   JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM

An accurate method for the quantification of cytochrome C oxidase in tissue sections

(2013) Miguel Melendez-Ferro et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS

Ant colonies outperform individuals when a sensory discrimination task is difficult but not when it is easy

(2013) Takao Sasaki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of brain size in class-based societies of fungus-growing ants (Attini)

(2012) Andre J. Riveros et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Groups have a larger cognitive capacity than individuals

(2012) Takao Sasaki et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Miniaturization of Nervous Systems and Neurons

(2012) Jeremy E. Niven et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Oxidative Phosphorylation, Not Glycolysis, Powers Presynaptic and Postsynaptic Mechanisms Underlying Brain Information Processing

(2012) C. N. Hall et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

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

An Exploration of the Social Brain Hypothesis in Insects

(2012) Mathieu Lihoreau et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Division of labor increases with colony size in the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex californicus

(2011) C. Tate Holbrook et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Emergence of group rationality from irrational individuals

(2011) T. Sasaki et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Social bonds in birds are associated with brain size and contingent on the correlated evolution of life-history and increased parental investment

(2010) SUSANNE SHULTZ et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Brain Allometry and Neural Plasticity in the Bumblebee Bombus occidentalis

(2010) Andre J. Riveros et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Weaver ants Oecophylla smaragdina encounter nasty neighbors rather than dear enemies

(2010) Philip S. Newey et al.   ECOLOGY

The Light and Magnetic Compass of the Weaver Ant, Oecophylla smaragdina (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

(2010) Rudolf Jander et al.   ETHOLOGY

Action Potential Energy Efficiency Varies Among Neuron Types in Vertebrates and Invertebrates

(2010) Biswa Sengupta et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Behavioral evolution in the major worker subcaste of twig-nesting Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): does morphological specialization influence task plasticity?

(2009) Amy L. Mertl et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Are Bigger Brains Better?

(2009) Lars Chittka et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cognitive fitness of cost-efficient brain functional networks

(2009) Danielle S. Bassett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Age, sex, and dominance-related mushroom body plasticity in the paperwaspMischocyttarus mastigophorus

(2008) Yamile Molina et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Energy limitation as a selective pressure on the evolution of sensory systems

(2008) J. E. Niven et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Tightly coupled brain activity and cerebral ATP metabolic rate

(2008) F. Du et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Collective cognition in animal groups

(2008) Iain D. Couzin   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES