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16213529

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-3-15
pubmed:abstractText
Amplification is the main component of many collective phenomena in social and gregarious insects. In a society, individuals face a mixed palette of odours coming from different groups (lines, strains) and individuals present discrimination capabilities. However, often at the collective level, different groups may cooperate and act together. To understand this apparent contradiction, we use a model of food recruitment where each group of foragers have its own blend of pheromone trail that is partly recognized by the others groups. The model shows that a low level of recognition between signals is sufficient to produce a collaborative pattern between groups and that beyond a critical value of recognition, only the aggregation of all the groups around the same food source is observed. The comparison between this model and one describing the site selection by gregarious insects (e.g. cockroach) suggests that such collective response is a generic property of social phenomena governed by amplification processes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0022-5193
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
7
pubmed:volume
239
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
313-23
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Individual discrimination capability and collective decision-making.
pubmed:affiliation
Service d'Ecologie sociale, CP 231, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't