Individual rules for trail pattern formation in Argentine ants (linepithema humile)

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Perna, Andrea ^a,b,c,d,e   Granovskiy, Boris ^b   Garnier, Simon ^c,d,f   Nicolis, Stamatios C ^b   Labédan, Marjorie ^c   Theraulaz, Guy ^c,d   Fourcassié, Vincent ^c,d   Sumpter, David J T ^b  

^a ISCPIF   (France)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d Université de Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; ARGENTINE ANTS; LINEPITHEMA HUMILE; NON LINEAR; NOVEL IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PATTERN FORMATION; PROPORTIONAL RESPONSE; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; SPATIAL POSITIONS; TURNING ANGLES;

DECISION MAKING;

PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HORMONE RESPONSE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LINEPITHEMA HUMILE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VELOCITY;

FORMICIDAE; LINEPITHEMA HUMILE;

EID: 84864582595     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002592     Document Type: Article

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