Trail laying during tandem-running recruitment in the ant Temnothorax albipennis
Trail laying during tandem-running recruitment in the ant Temnothorax albipennis
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蚂蚁 Temnothorax albipennis 串联奔跑招募过程中的踪迹铺设
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2014
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N. Franks
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N. Basari;Benita C Laird;A. Sendova;N. Franks
串联运行是一种招募策略，其中一只蚂蚁带领一个单一的天真的巢伙伴到一个资源。当一前一后向目标前进时，领导蚁和跟随蚁主要通过触觉信号保持联系。在本文中，我们调查是否他们也存款化学信号在地面上串联运行。我们拍摄了蚂蚁串联奔跑的过程，并分析了领导者和追随者喘息的位置。我们的研究结果表明，领导者蚂蚁更有可能按下他们的喘息到基板相比，追随者蚂蚁，蚂蚁和运输。向前串联运行的领导者（那些走向一个新的巢址）进行这种跟踪标记程序的三倍以上，往往比反向串联领导者（那些走向一个旧的巢址）。领导蚂蚁在前向串联运行中更经常标记路径，这可能表明在前向串联运行中保持与跟随蚂蚁的联系比反向串联运行更重要。地面上的标记可以作为安全线，提高串联运行的效率和完成率。
Tandem running is a recruitment strategy whereby one ant leads a single naïve nest mate to a resource. While tandem running progresses towards the goal, the leader ant and the follower ant maintain contact mainly by tactile signals. In this paper, we investigated whether they also deposit chemical signals on the ground during tandem running. We filmed tandem-running ants and analysed the position of the gasters of leaders and followers. Our results show that leader ants are more likely to press their gasters down to the substrate compared to follower ants, single ants and transporter ants. Forward tandem-run leaders (those moving towards a new nest site) performed such trail-marking procedures three times more often than reverse tandem leaders (those moving towards an old nest site). That leader ants marked the trails more often during forward tandem runs may suggest that it is more important to maintain the bond with the follower ant on forward tandem runs than on reverse tandem runs. Marked trails on the ground may serve as a safety line that improves both the efficiency of tandem runs and their completion rates.