Quorum sensing, recruitment, and collective decision-making during colony emigration by the ant Leptothorax albipennis

By Stephen C. Pratt, Eamonn B. Mallon, David J. T. Sumpter, Nigel R. Franks. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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Decision making by small and large house-hunting ant colonies: one size fits all (2006, background): “Carrying is three times quicker (Pratt et al. 2002), but carried ants do not seem to learn the route, probably because their heads are inverted and backwards as they are being carried and as a result they probably cannot learn landmarks en route.”
Consensus decision making in human crowds (2008, background): “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 2004; Pratt 2005) and, therefore, much more is known about the mechanisms behind consensus decisio”
An agent-based model of collective nest choice by the ant Temnothorax albipennis (2005, background): “…Complexity Temnothorax show a high degree of individual sophistication in their ability to assess candidate nests and accordingly regulate their recruitment behaviour (Mallon & Franks 2000; Mallon et al. 2001; Mugford et al. 2001; Pratt & Pierce 2001; Pratt et al. 2002; Franks et al. 2003b).”
Modeling and analysis of nest-site selection by honeybee swarms: the speed and accuracy trade-off (2005, background): “It also occurs as part of the nest-site selection by the ant Leptothorax albipennis (Mallon et al. 2001; Pratt et al. 2002).”
Improvement in collective performance with experience in ants (2004, background): “…in detail, the various elements of L. albipennis emigrations and have shown that they have a sophisticated organisation involving multiple interactions among the members of the colony (Mallon et al. 2001; Franks et al. 2002; Pratt et al. 2002; Sendova-Franks et al. 2002; Franks et al. 2003).”
The principles of collective animal behaviour (2006, background): “However, the four phase decision-making process, the use of a quorum threshold to decide whether to perform a tandem runs or a transport (Pratt 2005, in press; Pratt et al. 2002), and the fact that some ants find both nests and choose the superior one (Mallon et al.”
Behavioral mechanisms of collective nest-site choice by the ant Temnothorax curvispinosus (2005, background): “About one-third of the colony’s workers serve as recruiters, searching for new sites and bringing nest mates to promising fi nds (Pratt et al., 2002).”
The biological principles of swarm intelligence (2007, background): “This recruitment process called “quorum sensing” takes place in two successive steps (Pratt et al. 2002).”
Why do not all workers work? Colony size and workload during emigrations in the ant Temnothorax albipennis (2008, background): “Social carrying is indeed a faster process than other recruitment methods such as tandem running (Pratt et al. 2002).”
From nonlinearity to optimality: pheromone trail foraging by ants (2003, background): “The collective success of social insects is thus achieved through feedback mechanisms arising as information is shared between individuals (Bonabeau et al. 1997; Pratt et al. 2002).”
Choosing a home: how the scouts in a honey bee swarm perceive the completion of their group decision making (2003, methodology): “This is the “quorum sensing hypothesis,” related to quorum sensing in bacteria (Shapiro and Dworkin 1997), and studied already in ants (Pratt et al. 2002).”
Modulation of individual behavior and collective decision-making during aggregation site selection by the ant Messor barbarus (2004, background): “…Seeley et al. 1991; Seeley 1995; Mailleux et al. 2000) and the suitability of potential nest sites (Seeley 1977, 1982; Seeley and Morse 1978; Seeley and Buhrman 1999; Visscher and Camazine 1999; Mallon and Franks 2000; Mallon et al. 2001; Mugford et al. 2001; Pratt et al. 2002; Franks et al. 2003).”
Quorum sensing during nest-site selection by honeybee swarms (2004, background): “This idea has been developed rigorously by Pratt et al. (2002) in their study of group decision making during colony emigration in the ant Leptothorax albipennis.”