Leaders benefit followers in the collective movement of a social sawfly

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1796, 2014, Pages

  Hodgkin, L K ^a   Symonds, M R E ^b   Elgar, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collective movement; Consensus decision making; Followers; Larval aggregation; Leadership

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; FLY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; MOVEMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYMENOPTERA; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; HYMENOPTERA; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84908193764     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1700     Document Type: Article

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