At the brink of supercoloniality: genetic, behavioral, and chemical assessments of population structure of the desert ant Cataglyphis niger M Saar, L Leniaud, S Aron, A Hefetz Frontiers in ecology and evolution 2, 13, 2014 | 29 | 2014 |
The interplay between maze complexity, colony size, learning and memory in ants while solving a maze: A test at the colony level M Saar, T Gilad, T Kilon-Kallner, A Rosenfeld, A Subach, I Scharf PLoS one 12 (8), 2017 | 26 | 2017 |
Consistent differences in foraging behavior in 2 sympatric harvester ant species may facilitate coexistence M Saar, A Subach, I Reato, T Liber, JN Pruitt, I Scharf Current Zoology 64 (5), 653-661, 2018 | 24 | 2018 |
The effect of maze complexity on maze-solving time in a desert ant D Bega, Y Samocha, N Yitzhak, M Saar, A Subach, I Scharf Behavioural processes 166, 103893, 2019 | 15 | 2019 |
Within-colony genetic diversity differentially affects foraging, nest maintenance, and aggression in two species of harvester ants M Saar, PA Eyer, T Kilon-Kallner, A Hefetz, I Scharf Scientific Reports 8 (1), 13868, 2018 | 13 | 2018 |
Non-spatial information on the presence of food elevates search intensity in ant workers, leading to faster maze solving in a process parallel to spatial learning D Bega, Y Samocha, N Yitzhak, M Saar, A Subach, I Scharf PLoS One 15 (2), e0229709, 2020 | 12 | 2020 |
Embryo injections for CRISPR-mediated mutagenesis in the ant Harpegnathos saltator K Sieber, M Saar, C Opachaloemphan, M Gallitto, H Yang, H Yan Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2021 | 7 | 2021 |
The effect of food preference, landmarks, and maze shift on maze-solving time in desert ants M Saar, D Hershkovitz, O Amano, D Bega, A Subach, I Scharf Behaviour 157 (7), 629-665, 2020 | 3 | 2020 |
Systematics of harvester ants (Messor) in Israel based on integrated morphological, genetic, and ecological data M Saar, PA Eyer, T Magory Cohen, A Ionescu-Hirsch, R Dor, N Dorchin https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.16.549226v1, 2023 | 1 | 2023 |
Seasonality effects and field-estimation of colony size in desert ants A Subach, D Bega, M Saar https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.30.547264v1, 2023 | | 2023 |
Foraging behavior of co-occurring ant species and the link to traits contributing to colony fitness M Saar Tel-Aviv University, 2019 | | 2019 |