Czaczkes, Tomer J. and Ratnieks, Francis L. W. and Grueter, Christoph (2015) Trail Pheromones: An Integrative View of Their Role in Social Insect Colony Organization. In: UNSPECIFIED Annual Review of Entomology,, 60 . ANNUAL REVIEWS, PALO ALTO, pp. 581-599. ISBN 978-0-8243-0160-6
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Trail pheromones do more than simply guide social insect workers from point A to point B. Recent research has revealed additional ways in which they help to regulate colony foraging, often via positive and negative feedback processes that influence the exploitation of the different resources that a colony has knowledge of. Trail pheromones are often complementary or synergistic with other information sources, such as individual memory. Pheromone trails can be composed of two or more pheromones with different functions, and information may be embedded in the trail network geometry. These findings indicate remarkable sophistication in how trail pheromones are used to regulate colony-level behavior, and how trail pheromones are used and deployed at the individual level.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | LEAF-CUTTING ANT; COLLECTIVE DECISION-MAKING; LASIUS-NIGER; CHEMICAL COMMUNICATION; FOOD RECRUITMENT; STINGLESS-BEE; LATREILLE HYMENOPTERA; MONOMORIUM-PHARAONIS; PRIVATE INFORMATION; LEARNING STRATEGIES; organization; complexity; recruitment; ants; review; complex adaptive systems |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 590 Zoological sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Zoologie > Zoologie/Evolutionsbiologie (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heinze) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jul 2020 09:14 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jul 2020 09:14 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/6308 |
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