Short-term activity cycles impede information transmission in ant colonies.

Rhythmical activity patterns are ubiquitous in nature. We study an oscillatory biological system: collective activity cycles in ant colonies. Ant colonies have become model systems for research on biological networks because the interactions between the component parts are visible to the naked eye,...

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Main Authors: Thomas O Richardson, Jonas I Liechti, Nathalie Stroeymeyt, Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Laurent Keller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-05-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5443549?pdf=render