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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...
Autores principales: | Grüter, Christoph, Schürch, Roger, Czaczkes, Tomer J., Taylor, Keeley, Durance, Thomas, Jones, Sam M., Ratnieks, Francis L. W. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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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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