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Linear recruitment leads to allocation and flexibility in collective foraging by ants

Zachary Joseph Shaffer Takao Sasaki Stephen Pratt | Published Thursday, July 11, 2013 | Last modified Thursday, September 05, 2013

Ants in the genus Temnothorax use tandem runs (rather than pheromone trails) to recruit to food sources. This model explores the collective consequences of this linear recruitment (as opposed to highly nonlinear pheromone trails).

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