The social life of Drosophila melanogaster

JC Billeter, TPM Bailly, P Kohlmeier - Insectes sociaux, 2024 - Springer
In this review, we explore the social behavior of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster,
integrating mechanistic, ecological and evolutionary perspectives. Despite its status as a …

Timing decisions as the next frontier for collective intelligence

AB Kao, SC Banerjee, FA Francisco… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
The past decade has witnessed a growing interest in collective decision making, particularly
the idea that groups can make more accurate decisions compared with individuals …

A soluble model for synchronized rhythmic activity in ant colonies

PMM da Silveira, JF Fontanari - Mathematical Biosciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Synchronization is one of the most striking instances of collective behavior, occurring in
many natural phenomena. For example, in some ant species, ants are inactive within the …

Emergent collective behavior evolves more rapidly than individual behavior among acorn ant species

GN Doering, MM Prebus, S Suresh, JN Greer… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Emergence is a fundamental concept in biology and other disciplines, but whether emergent
phenotypes evolve similarly to nonemergent phenotypes is unclear. The hypothesized …

[HTML][HTML] Synchronized Rhythmic Activity of Ants with Distributed Rest Periods

PMM da Silveira, JF Fontanari - Mathematics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Synchronization is a prevalent phenomenon in biological systems, including social insects
such as ants. Certain ant species exhibit remarkable synchronization of their activities within …

Emergent Collective Behavior Evolves More Rapidly Than Individual Behavior Among Ant Species

GN Doering, MM Prebus, S Suresh, JN Greer… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Emergence is a fundamental concept in biology and other disciplines, but whether emergent
phenotypes evolve similarly to non-emergent phenotypes is unclear. The hypothesized …