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Regulation of harvester ant foraging as a closed-loop excitable system
Ant colonies regulate activity in response to changing conditions without using centralized control. Desert harvester ant colonies forage for seeds, and regulate foraging to manage a tradeoff between spending and obtaining water. Foragers lose water while outside in the dry air, but ants obtain wate...
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| Format: | Online Article Text |
| Idioma: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2018
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6294393/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30513076 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006200 |