Ant social network structure is highly conserved across species.
Détails
ID Serval
serval:BIB_C29CAFF0B415
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Ant social network structure is highly conserved across species.
Périodique
Proceedings. Biological sciences
ISSN
1471-2954 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0962-8452
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
07/2024
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
291
Numéro
2027
Pages
20240898
Langue
anglais
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Publication Status: ppublish
Résumé
The ecological success of social insects makes their colony organization fascinating to scientists studying collective systems. In recent years, the combination of automated behavioural tracking and social network analysis has deepened our understanding of many aspects of colony organization. However, because studies have typically worked with single species, we know little about interspecific variation in network structure. Here, we conduct a comparative network analysis across five ant species from five subfamilies, separated by more than 100 Myr of evolution. We find that social network structure is highly conserved across subfamilies. All species studied form modular networks, with two social communities, a similar distribution of individuals between the two communities, and equivalent mapping of task performance onto the communities. Against this backdrop of organizational similarity, queens of the different species occupied qualitatively distinct network positions. The deep conservation of the two community structure implies that the most fundamental behavioural division of labour in social insects is between workers that stay in the nest to rear brood, and those that leave the nest to forage. This division has parallels across the animal kingdom in systems of biparental care and probably represents the most readily evolvable form of behavioural division of labour.
Mots-clé
Ants/physiology, Animals, Social Behavior, Behavior, Animal, Species Specificity, Biological Evolution, ants, collective behaviour, division of labour, social insects, social network analysis, social organization
Pubmed
Open Access
Oui
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05/08/2024 15:08
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06/08/2024 6:03