Emergence of division of labour in halictine bees: contributions of social interactions and behavioural variance

By Raphaël Jeanson, P. Kukuk, J. Fewell. 2005

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RODE: Learning Roles to Decompose Multi-Agent Tasks (2020, background): “Many natural systems feature emergent roles, such as ants (Gordon, 1996), bees (Jeanson et al., 2005), and humans (Butler, 2012).”
ROMA: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Emergent Roles (2020, background): “The emergence of role has been documented in many natural systems, such as bees (Jeanson et al., 2005), ants (Gordon, 1996), and humans (Butler, 2012).”
Weak specialization of workers inside a bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) nest (2009, background): “, a genus that contains communal species as well as solitary species that have been experimentally induced to nest together (Jeanson et al. 2005).”
Emergence of increased division of labor as a function of group size (2007, background): “The random duration of task performance within the model adequately captures empirical variation in task performance, including excavation in halictine bees (Jeanson et al. 2005) and nest building in ants (Franks and Deneubourg 1997).”
An Evolutionary Perspective on Self-Organized Division of Labor in Social Insects (2011, background): “…has been supported by behavioral experiments showing that normally solitary seed-harvester ant queens and halictine bees exhibit task specialization when forced to associate, i.e., paired individuals dedicated most of their time to different tasks (Fewell & Page 1999; Jeanson et al. 2005, 2008).”