Quorum sensing, recruitment, and collective decision-making during colony emigration by the ant Leptothorax albipennis

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 117-127

  Pratt, Stephen C ^a,c   Mallon, Eamonn B ^a   Sumpter, David J T ^b   Franks, Nigel R ^a,d  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decentralized control; Emigration; Quorum sensing; Recruitment; Transport

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY FOUNDING; DECISION MAKING; EMIGRATION; RECRUITMENT; SOCIAL INSECT;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; LEPTOTHORAX;

EID: 0036664373     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-002-0487-x     Document Type: Article

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