Collective Behaviour without Collective Order in Wild Swarms of Midges

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Attanasi, Alessandro ^a,b   Cavagna, Andrea ^a,b,c   Del Castello, Lorenzo ^a,b   Giardina, Irene ^a,b,c   Melillo, Stefania ^a,b   Parisi, Leonardo ^a,b   Pohl, Oliver ^a,b   Rossaro, Bruno ^d   Shen, Edward ^a,b   Silvestri, Edmondo ^a,e   Viale, Massimiliano ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD FLOCKS; CELL COLONIES; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR; FISH SCHOOL; GLOBAL ORDERING; GROUP FORMATIONS; NON-INTERACTING PARTICLES; ORDERING TRANSITIONS; STRONG CORRELATION;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BODY HEIGHT; CLADOTANYTARSUS ATRIDORSUM; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNONEURA SCUTELLATA; DASYHELEA FLAVIFRONS; DIPTERA; INSECT SWARM; MALE; MOTION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHENOMENOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; VELOCITY; WILD SPECIES; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DIPTERA; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84905457385     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003697     Document Type: Article

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