Emergence of increased division of labor as a function of group size

By Raphaël Jeanson, J. Fewell, Root Gorelick, Susan M. Bertram. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2007

196 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Anna R. Dornhaus
2. Jo-anne C. Holley
3. Victoria G. Pook
4. G. Worswick.
5. Nigel R. Franks
6. I. Pen
7. Franz J. Weissing
8. Laurent Keller

In Genetics

1. Anna R. Dornhaus
2. Jo-anne C. Holley
3. Victoria G. Pook
4. G. Worswick.
5. Nigel R. Franks
6. Laurent Keller
7. Franz J. Weissing
8. J. Fewell

In Insect Science

1. Anna R. Dornhaus
2. Laurent Keller
3. Nigel R. Franks
4. J. Fewell
5. S. Cook
6. M. Eubanks
7. S. Behmer
8. I. Kaplan

Citations in the corpus

• Colony-level macronutrient regulation in ants: mechanisms, hoarding and associated costs (2010, background): “Furthermore, colony size is associated with the distribution of task assignment among individuals in insect societies (Jeanson et al. 2007; Dornhaus et al. 2008); a factor that is likely to be correlated with some aforementioned points.”
• An Evolutionary Perspective on Self-Organized Division of Labor in Social Insects (2011, background): “Thresholds determine the intensity of signal needed for the individual to respond (Bonabeau et al. 1996, 1998; Gove et al. 2009; Graham et al. 2006; Jeanson et al. 2007; Page & Mitchell 1998).”
• Structure and resilience of the social network in an insect colony as a function of colony size (2009, unknown): “A number of studies support this trend, showing that workers are more generalists in smaller colonies and behavioral specialization emerging with increase in colony size (Karsai and Wenzel 1998; Thomas and Elgar 2003; Gautrais et al. 2002; Jeanson et al. 2007).”
• Division of labor increases with colony size in the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex californicus (2011, background): “Does activity or workload vary predictably with colony size? If economies of scale reduce relative task demand (Jeanson et al. 2007) and/or energy expenditure in larger colonies (Hou et al.”
• Why do not all workers work? Colony size and workload during emigrations in the ant Temnothorax albipennis (2008, background): “…in task repertoire (i.e. a reduced number of different tasks performed), as in ecology, a dietary specialist is defined as having a restricted diet (although there seems to be some confusion about this in the literature; see Robson and Traniello 1999; Anderson and McShea 2001; Jeanson et al. 2007).”