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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Main Authors: Yuko Ulrich, Mari Kawakatsu, Christopher K Tokita, Jonathan Saragosti, Vikram Chandra, Corina E Tarnita, Daniel J C Kronauer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-06-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001269