Individual crop loads provide local control for collective food intake in ant colonies
Nutritional regulation by ants emerges from a distributed process: food is collected by a small fraction of workers, stored within the crops of individuals, and spread via local ant-to-ant interactions. The precise individual-level underpinnings of this collective regulation have remained unclear ma...
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| Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2018-03-01
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| Series: | eLife |
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| Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/31730 |