Division of labor promotes the spread of information in colony emigrations by the ant Temnothorax rugatulus
G. Valentini, N. Masuda, Z. Shaffer, J. R. Hanson, T. Sasaki, S. I. Walker, T. P. Pavlic, S. C. Pratt
The paper studies how behavioral heterogeneity in ant colonies affects information spread during emigration, identifying four distinct worker castes.
bioRxiv · Dec 17, 2019Animal Behavior & Cognition