| Title: | Ant Lasius niger joining one-way trails go against the flow |
| Address: | "Department of Information Systems Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Soka University, 1 Chome-236 Tangimachi, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-8577, Japan. Department of Information Systems Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Soka University, 1 Chome-236 Tangimachi, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-8577, Japan. sakiyama@soka.ac.jp" |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-022-05879-4 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 2045-2322 (Electronic) 2045-2322 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Social insects, such as ants, use various pheromones as their social signal. In addition, they use the presence of other ants for decision-making. In this study, we attempted to evaluate if individual decision-making is influenced by the complementary use of pheromones and presence of other ants. Ants were induced to form a one-way flow system. We found that when ants entered such a system at a right angle, they tended to move in the opposite direction of the one-way flow system. Interestingly, the target ants moved randomly in the experiments in which no ant and/or no pheromone trails were present. We also developed simulation algorithms and found that artificial ant foragers could reach a certain goal more often if they adopted the reverse run (similar mechanism found in ant experiments) over the forward run (moving in the same direction as their nestmates)" |
| Keywords: | "Animals Ants/*physiology Behavior, Animal Computer Simulation Pheromones/metabolism;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineSakamoto, Yuta Sakiyama, Tomoko eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2022/02/13 Sci Rep. 2022 Feb 11; 12(1):2361. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-05879-4" |
