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Division of labour in ant colonies in terms of attractive fields (2009)
Journal Article
Arcaute, E., Christensen, K., Sendova-Franks, A. B., Dahl, T., Espinosa, A., & Jensen, H. J. (2009). Division of labour in ant colonies in terms of attractive fields. Ecological Complexity, 6(4), 396-402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2008.10.001

In nature there exist many mechanisms giving rise to self-regulation. One such mechanism is the division of labour in insect societies. Within this work we propose a mathematical model for the allocation of tasks in ant colonies, where each of the ta... Read More about Division of labour in ant colonies in terms of attractive fields.

Symbionts of societies that fission: Mites as guests or parasites of army ants (2009)
Journal Article
Berghoff, S. M., Wurst, E., Ebermann, E., Sendova-Franks, A. B., Rettenmeyer, C. W., & Franks, N. R. (2009). Symbionts of societies that fission: Mites as guests or parasites of army ants. Ecological Entomology, 34(6), 684-695. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.2009.01125.x

Recently, Hughes et al. (Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 23, 672-677, 2008) have theorised that symbionts of large, long-lived, homeostatic, and well defended social insect colonies should mostly be of low virulence. If the symbionts are rare, i.e. fe... Read More about Symbionts of societies that fission: Mites as guests or parasites of army ants.

Radio tagging reveals the roles of corpulence, experience and social information in ant decision making (2009)
Journal Article
Robinson, E. J., Richardson, T. O., Sendova-Franks, A. B., Feinerman, O., & Franks, N. R. (2009). Radio tagging reveals the roles of corpulence, experience and social information in ant decision making. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 63(5), 627-636. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-008-0696-z

Ant colonies are factories within fortresses (Oster and Wilson 1978). They run on resources foraged from an outside world fraught with danger. On what basis do individual ants decide to leave the safety of the nest? We investigated the relative roles... Read More about Radio tagging reveals the roles of corpulence, experience and social information in ant decision making.