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Ants in a labyrinth: A statistical mechanics approach to the division of labour (2011)
Journal Article
Jensen, H. J., Franks, N. R., Richardson, T. O., Christensen, K., & Sendova-Franks, A. B. (2011). Ants in a labyrinth: A statistical mechanics approach to the division of labour. PLoS ONE, 6(4), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018416

Division of labour (DoL) is a fundamental organisational principle in human societies, within virtual and robotic swarms and at all levels of biological organisation. DoL reaches a pinnacle in the insect societies where the most widely used model is... Read More about Ants in a labyrinth: A statistical mechanics approach to the division of labour.

Group dynamics and record signals in the ant Temnothorax albipennis (2011)
Journal Article
Richardson, T. O., Christensen, K., Franks, N. R., Jensen, H. J., & Sendova-Franks, A. B. (2011). Group dynamics and record signals in the ant Temnothorax albipennis. Interface, 8(57), 518-528. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2010.0286

Many purely physical complex systems, in which there are both stochasticity and local interactions between the components, exhibit record dynamics. The temporal statistics of record dynamics is a Poisson process operating on a logarithmic rather than... Read More about Group dynamics and record signals in the ant Temnothorax albipennis.

Blinkered teaching: Tandem running by visually impaired ants (2011)
Journal Article
Franklin, E. L., Richardson, T. O., Sendova-Franks, A. B., Robinson, E. J. H., & Franks, N. R. (2011). Blinkered teaching: Tandem running by visually impaired ants. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 65(4), 569-579. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-010-1057-2

During tandem runs, one ant worker recruits another to an important resource. Here, we begin to investigate how dependent are tandem leaders and followers on visual cues by painting over their compound eyes to impair their vision. There are two ways... Read More about Blinkered teaching: Tandem running by visually impaired ants.

Comment on P. Nouvellet, J.P. Bacon, D. Waxman, "Testing the level of ant activity associated with quorum sensing: An empirical approach leading to the establishment and test of a null-model" (2011)
Journal Article
Robinson, E. J., Richardson, T. O., Christensen, K., Jensen, H. J., Franks, N. R., & Sendova-Franks, A. B. (2011). Comment on P. Nouvellet, J.P. Bacon, D. Waxman, "Testing the level of ant activity associated with quorum sensing: An empirical approach leading to the establishment and test of a null-model". Journal of Theoretical Biology, 269(1), 356-358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.11.004