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Individual Rules for Trail Pattern Formation in Argentine Ants (Linepithema humile)

We studied the formation of trail patterns by Argentine ants exploring an empty arena. Using a novel imaging and analysis technique we estimated pheromone concentrations at all spatial positions in the experimental arena and at different times. Then we derived the response function of individual ant...

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Autores principales: Perna, Andrea, Granovskiy, Boris, Garnier, Simon, Nicolis, Stamatios C., Labédan, Marjorie, Theraulaz, Guy, Fourcassié, Vincent, Sumpter, David J. T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3400603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22829756
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002592