Leadership – not followership – determines performance in ant teams
Richardson et al. investigate the relationship between task performance and teamwork in ant colonies. Targeted removals of prominent leaders and followers during ‘tandem running’ - a cooperative team task in which one ant physically leads another to a resource - reveal that leadership, and specifica...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-05-01
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| Series: | Communications Biology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02048-7 |
| Summary: | Richardson et al. investigate the relationship between task performance and teamwork in ant colonies. Targeted removals of prominent leaders and followers during ‘tandem running’ - a cooperative team task in which one ant physically leads another to a resource - reveal that leadership, and specifically the consistency of leaders, influences tandem performance but ‘followership’ does not. |
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| ISSN: | 2399-3642 |