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Interactions Increase Forager Availability and Activity in Harvester Ants

Social insect colonies use interactions among workers to regulate collective behavior. Harvester ant foragers interact in a chamber just inside the nest entrance, here called the 'entrance chamber'. Previous studies of the activation of foragers in red harvester ants show that an outgoing...

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Autores principales: Pless, Evlyn, Queirolo, Jovel, Pinter-Wollman, Noa, Crow, Sam, Allen, Kelsey, Mathur, Maya B., Gordon, Deborah M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4635008/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26539724
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141971