Information processing in social insect networks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Waters, James S ^a   Fewell, Jennifer H ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANT; ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; INSECT SOCIETY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; POGONOMYRMEX CALIFORNICUS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ANIMALS; ANTS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84864005162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040337     Document Type: Article

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