Response thresholds alone cannot explain empirical patterns of division of labor in social insects.
The effects of heterogeneity in group composition remain a major hurdle to our understanding of collective behavior across disciplines. In social insects, division of labor (DOL) is an emergent, colony-level trait thought to depend on colony composition. Theoretically, behavioral response threshold...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2021-06-01
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Series: | PLoS Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001269 |