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  • RESEARCH ARTICLE
    Analysis of ants’ rescue behavior reveals heritable specialization for first responders
    Jason P. Andras, Karen L. Hollis, Kristyn A. Carter, Genevieve Couldwell, Elise Nowbahari
    Journal of Experimental Biology 2020 223: jeb212530 doi: 10.1242/jeb.212530 Published 28 February 2020

    Summary: Rescue behavior, in which Cataglyphis cursor ants release entrapped nestmates, is heritable. Heretofore, this behavior has been overlooked in analyses of division of labor in ants.

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    Walking kinematics in the polymorphic seed harvester ant Messor barbarus: influence of body size and load carriage
    Hugo Merienne, Gérard Latil, Pierre Moretto, Vincent Fourcassié
    Journal of Experimental Biology 2020 223: jeb205690 doi: 10.1242/jeb.205690 Published 3 February 2020

    Summary: Scale effect rather than morphological differences explain the variability in load-carrying performance in different-sized individuals in the polymorphic ant species Messor barbarus.

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE
    The role of attractive and repellent scene memories in ant homing (Myrmecia croslandi)
    Trevor Murray, Zoltán Kócsi, Hansjürgen Dahmen, Ajay Narendra, Florent Le Möel, Antoine Wystrach, Jochen Zeil
    Journal of Experimental Biology 2020 223: jeb210021 doi: 10.1242/jeb.210021 Published 3 February 2020

    Editors' Choice: Outdoor experiments with ants on a trackball and agent-based modelling suggest that navigating ants might continuously integrate attractive and repellent visual memories.

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE
    Communication versus waterproofing: the physics of insect cuticular hydrocarbons
    Florian Menzel, Svenja Morsbach, Jiska H. Martens, Petra Räder, Simon Hadjaje, Marine Poizat, Bérengère Abou
    Journal of Experimental Biology 2019 222: jeb210807 doi: 10.1242/jeb.210807 Published 4 December 2019

    Summary: Cuticular hydrocarbons protect insects from desiccation and allow chemical communication, and contain both liquid and solid parts. This complex phase behaviour appears vital to ensure biological functioning.

  • REVIEW
    The internal maps of insects
    Barbara Webb
    Journal of Experimental Biology 2019 222: jeb188094 doi: 10.1242/jeb.188094 Published 6 February 2019

    Summary: Insect behaviour can be explained as a combination of path integration, vector memory and view memory, but what is the evidence that these geometric capabilities form an integrated map?

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE
    The choreography of learning walks in the Australian jack jumper ant Myrmecia croslandi
    Piyankarie Jayatilaka, Trevor Murray, Ajay Narendra, Jochen Zeil
    Journal of Experimental Biology 2018 221: jeb185306 doi: 10.1242/jeb.185306 Published 24 October 2018

    Summary: Ants learn about the location of their nest during highly choreographed learning walks. They systematically scan the scene alternating between looking toward and away from the nest from different compass bearings.

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE
    Compass cues used by a nocturnal bull ant, Myrmecia midas
    Cody A. Freas, Ajay Narendra, Ken Cheng
    Journal of Experimental Biology 2017 220: 1578-1585; doi: 10.1242/jeb.152967

    Summary: The nocturnal bull ant, Myrmecia midas, uses multiple cues to navigate and appears to rely heavily on landmark information for navigation.

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE
    Head roll stabilisation in the nocturnal bull ant Myrmecia pyriformis: implications for visual navigation
    Chloé A. Raderschall, Ajay Narendra, Jochen Zeil
    Journal of Experimental Biology 2016 219: 1449-1457; doi: 10.1242/jeb.134049

    Summary: Navigating ants keep their head horizontally aligned, but not perfectly so, which has consequences for visual navigation.

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE
    Resistance to nutritional stress in ants: when being fat is advantageous
    Audrey Dussutour, Laure-Anne Poissonnier, Jerome Buhl, Stephen J. Simpson
    Journal of Experimental Biology 2016 219: 824-833; doi: 10.1242/jeb.136234

    Highlighted Article: More fat, live longer: positive association between fat content and lifespan in ants.

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE
    Private information alone can trigger trapping of ant colonies in local feeding optima
    Tomer J. Czaczkes, Anete K. Salmane, Felicia A. M. Klampfleuthner, Jürgen Heinze
    Journal of Experimental Biology 2016 219: 744-751; doi: 10.1242/jeb.131847

    Summary: Route memories alone can trigger ‘trapping’ of ant colonies in suboptimal exploitation of established but poorer-quality food sources, even when pheromone trails are removed.

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