Negative Feedback Enables Fast and Flexible Collective Decision-Making in Ants

Positive feedback plays a major role in the emergence of many collective animal behaviours. In many ants pheromone trails recruit and direct nestmate foragers to food sources. The strong positive feedback caused by trail pheromones allows fast collective responses but can compromise flexibility. Pre...

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Autores principales: Grüter, Christoph, Schürch, Roger, Czaczkes, Tomer J., Taylor, Keeley, Durance, Thomas, Jones, Sam M., Ratnieks, Francis L. W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3440389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22984518
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044501

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3440389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22984518
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044501

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