Army Ants Trapped by Their Evolutionary History
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Army Ants Trapped by Their Evolutionary History
R eading the French version of Journey to the Ants by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson (1996) during the course of my graduate studies, I remember being amazed by the description of circular mills formed by an isolated group of army ants. This phenomenon occurs when a group of foragers is separated from the main column of the raiding swarm by a perturbation of their pheromonal communication...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Biology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1545-7885
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0000037