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SUBMITTER: McCreery HF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8897433 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McCreery Helen F HF Gemayel Georgina G Pais Ana Isabel AI Garnier Simon S Nagpal Radhika R
Nature communications 20220304 1
Biological systems must adjust to changing external conditions, and their resilience depends on their control mechanisms. How is dynamic control implemented in noisy, decentralized systems? Army ants' self-assembled bridges are built on unstable features, like leaves, which frequently move. Using field experiments and simulations, we characterize the bridges' response as the gaps they span change in size, identify the control mechanism, and explore how this emerges from individuals' decisions. F ...[more]