Larger colonies do not have more specialized workers in the ant Temnothorax albipennis

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 922-929

  Dornhaus, Anna ^a,b   Holley, Jo Anne ^a,c   Franks, Nigel R ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Colony size; Division of labor; Scaling; Self organization; Social insects; Specialization; Task allocation

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY STRUCTURE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LABOR DIVISION; SELF ORGANIZATION; SOCIAL INSECT; SPECIALIZATION;

HEXAPODA; LEPTOTHORAX ALBIPENNIS;

EID: 70349446634     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp070     Document Type: Article

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