Bipartite network analysis of ant-task associations reveals task groups and absence of colonial daily activity.

ABSTRACT: Social insects are one of the best examples of complex self-organized systems exhibiting task allocation. How task allocation is achieved is the most fascinating question in behavioural ecology and complex systems science. However, it is difficult to comprehensively characterize task allocation patterns due to behavioural complexity, such as the individual variation, context dependency and chronological variation. Thus, it is imperative to quantify individual behaviours and integrate them into colony levels. Here, we applied bipartite network analyses to characterize individual-behaviour relationships. We recorded the behaviours of all individuals with verified age in ant colonies and analysed the individual-behaviour relationship at the individual, module and network levels. Bipartite net

SUBMITTER: Fujioka H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7890512 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature