Quorum sensing by encounter rates in the ant Temnothorax albipennis

By Stephen C. Pratt. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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Swarm cognition in honey bees (2007, background): “For instance, ant colonies performing nest-site selection (Marshall et al. 2006; Mallon et al. 2001; Pratt et al. 2002, 2005; Franks et al. 2002, 2003; Pratt 2005; Pratt and Sumpter 2006) use quorum sensing in a way similar to honey bees.”
Self-organized structures in a superorganism: do ants "behave" like molecules? (2006, background): “Likewise, in the context of nest emigration, rates of physical contacts allow Temnothorax scouts to assess whether a quorum number of nestmates is reached and whether recruitment should be launched toward a new nesting site [102].”
Collective cognition in animal groups. (2009, background): “If recruiting ants detect a threshold quorum (density) of ants already presentin thenest towhich they arerecruiting[53, 58 ]they begin to physically carry others from the old nest, rather than to lead them [53].”
Behavioral mechanisms of collective nest-site choice by the ant Temnothorax curvispinosus (2005, methodology): “The design followed closely an experiment previously carried out on T. albipennis (Pratt, 2005).”
Interactions between Diatoms and Bacteria (2012, background): “Social insects also use QS to coordinate colony functions such as nesting site selection (141).”
An agent-based model of collective nest choice by the ant Temnothorax albipennis (2005, background): “Independent decisions included only those leading to forward tandem runs or to each ant's first transport, because the ants cease monitoring nest population once the switch to transport has been made (Pratt 2005).”
The principles of collective animal behaviour (2006, background): “When the density reaches at least 20.2 ants in a 24 cm2 nest, the ants switch from tandem run recruitment to transporting (Pratt 2005, in press).”
Radio tagging reveals the roles of corpulence, experience and social information in ant decision making (2009, background): “Information may be available from interactions with other colony members (Pratt 2005; Greene and Gordon 2007; O’Donnell and Bulova 2007) or workers may simply activate each other by physical contact, leading to the emergence of synchronous waves of colony activity (Franks and Bryant 1987; Cole 1991;”
Consensus decision making in human crowds (2008, background): “Empirical work on consensus decision making has primarily concentrated on the eusocial insects (e.g. Camazine et al. 1999; Seeley & Buhrman 1999; Mallon et al. 2001; Britton et al. 2002; Pratt et al. 2002; Couzin & Franks 2003; Franks et al. 2003; Seeley 2003; Dornhaus et al. 2004; Seeley & Visscher”
Decision making by small and large house-hunting ant colonies: one size fits all (2006, background): “The ants use a quorum threshold, the number of nestmates they encounter in a new nest, as a stimulus to switch from recruitment by forward tandem running to recruitment by carrying adult and brood nestmates to a new nest (Pratt et al. 2002; Pratt 2005).”