Desert ants achieve reliable recruitment across noisy interactions

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 10, Issue 82, 2013, Pages

  Razin, Nitzan ^a   Eckmann, Jean Pierre ^b   Feinerman, Ofer ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bistable switch; Channel capacity; Information theory; Negative feedback; Noise control; Social insects

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; CHANNEL CAPACITY; EMPLOYMENT; FEEDBACK; INFORMATION THEORY;

AUTOMATED TRACKING; BISTABLE SWITCHES; LARGE DATABASE; PAIRWISE INTERACTION; RECRUITMENT MECHANISM; RELIABLE COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL INSECTS; SPEED FOLLOWING;

SPEED;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CATAGLYPHIS NIGER; DATA BASE; DESERT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEASUREMENT; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRENGTH; VELOCITY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANTS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84881272451     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2013.0079     Document Type: Article

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