Shape transition during nest digging in ants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 44, 2009, Pages 18616-18620

  Toffin, Etienne ^a   Di Paolo, David ^a   Campo, Alexandre ^a   Detrain, Claire ^a   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Branching pattern; Collective behavior; Modeling; Nest building; Self organization

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INSECT SOCIETY; MORPHOGENESIS; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NESTING BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 73249146478     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902685106     Document Type: Article

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