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Attraction, Dynamics, and Phase Transitions in Fire Ant Tower-Building

Many insect species, and even some vertebrates, assemble their bodies to form multi-functional materials that combine sensing, computation, and actuation. The tower-building behavior of red imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta, presents a key example of this phenomenon of collective construction....

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Autores principales: Nave, Gary K., Mitchell, Nelson T., Chan Dick, Jordan A., Schuessler, Tyler, Lagarrigue, Joaquin A., Peleg, Orit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7806095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33501194
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2020.00025