Models of division of labor in social insects.

By S. Beshers, J. Fewell. Annual Review of Entomology, 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

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Teamwork in Self-Organized Robot Colonies (2009, background): “members of different castes) are fundamentally required for teamwork [2], [13], [38].”
Age-related repertoire expansion and division of labor in Pheidole dentata (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a new perspective on temporal polyethism and behavioral plasticity in ants (2006, background): “…our RPM and olfaction data indicate that different age minors have variable thresholds of receptivity to stimuli associated with nursing and foraging, just as physical castes in Pheidole may have different response thresholds (Beshers and Fewell 2001; Detrain and Pasteels 1991, 1992; Wilson 1984).”
HoPoMo : A model of honeybee intracolonial population dynamics and resource management (2007, background): “Other models also focus on the processes involved in division of labor (in detail reviewed in Beshers and Fewell, 2001) or on spatial organization in honeybee colonies (Camazine et al., 1990).”
Integrative Pluralism (2002, background): “…behavior can emerge from interactions of individuals exhibiting only simple behaviors, without the need for either a central organizing agent or internalized complexity in the individual compo- nents (see Bonabeau et al. (1997) and Beshers and Fewell (2001) for reviews of work in this area).”
Emergence of increased division of labor as a function of group size (2007, background): “Genetic diversity among individuals should promote the expression of different thresholds and enhance division of labor (Robinson and Page 1989; Bonabeau et al. 1996; Beshers and Fewell 2001; Myerscough and Oldroyd 2004).”
The Development and Evolution of Division of Labor and Foraging Specialization in a Social Insect (Apis mellifera L.) (2006, background): “Individual differences in behavioral response thresholds are assumed to be at the basis of division of labor in insect colonies (Beshers and Fewell, 2001; Beshers et al., 1999; Page and Erber, 2002; Robinson, 1992; Theraulaz et al., 1998).”
Dynamic modelling of honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony growth and failure (2013, background): “Division of labour organised y social inhibition now has overwhelming experimental support or honey bees (Beshers and Fewell, 2001; Leoncini, 2004).”
Differences in olfactory sensitivity and behavioral responses among honey bees bred for hygienic behavior (2003, background): “for such cues initiate tasks specifically associated with those stimuli (reviewed in Bonabeau and Theraulaz 1999; Beshers and Fewell 2001).”
Life expectancy and onset of foraging in the honeybee (Apis mellifera) (2009, background): “A large body of literature covers this issue; however, most studies focus on the proximate factors of age polyethism (Gordon, 1996; Calderone, 1998; Beshers and Fewell, 2001; for review see also Münch et al., 2008).”
Weak specialization of workers inside a bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) nest (2009, background): “In social insects, a variety of mechanisms give rise to a division of labor (rev. in Beshers and Fewell 2001).”
Age polyethism in the leaf‐cutting ant Acromyrmex subterraneus brunneus Forel, 1911 (Hym., Formicidae) (2007, background): “As these workers die, a decline in execution rates of some tasks occurs in the area where they were allocated (Tofts 1993 cited by Beshers and Fewell 2001).”
Bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) store both food and information in honeypots (2005, background): “, 1991), and regulation of the number of workers engaged in a task according to the colony’s needs (Beshers and Fewell, 2001; Hölldobler and Wilson, 1990; Seeley, 1995).”
Radio tagging reveals the roles of corpulence, experience and social information in ant decision making (2009, background): “The interplay of these two factors can be viewed as a stimulus–threshold relationship (Beshers and Fewell 2001), with returning ants acting as the stimulus to leave the nest and the threshold which must be reached for the ant to respond to this stimulus being linked to the internal lipid levels.”
Sucrose responsiveness and behavioral plasticity in honey bees (Apis mellifera) (2004, background): “basis for division of labor in social insects (Calderone and Page, 1988; Robinson and Page, 1989; Robinson, 1992; Bonabeau et al., 1996; Theraulaz et al., 1998; Arathi and Spivak, 2001; Beshers and Fewell, 2001).”
The development of collective personality: the ontogenetic drivers of behavioral variation across groups (2014, background): “Genetic variation is also one proximate explanation for division of labor in social insects (Page and Robinson, 1991; Robinson, 1992; Beshers and Fewell, 2001; LeBoeuf and Grozinger, 2014).”