Autoren:	Pamminger, Tobias Foitzik, Susanne Kaufmann, Katharina C. Schützler, Natalie Menzel, Florian
Titel:	Worker personality and its association with spatially structured division of labor
Online-Publikationsdatum:	4-Okt-2022
Erscheinungsdatum:	2014
Sprache des Dokuments:	Englisch
Zusammenfassung/Abstract:	Division of labor is a defining characteristic of social insects and fundamental to their ecological success. Many of the numerous tasks essential for the survival of the colony must be performed at a specific location. Consequently, spatial organization is an integral aspect of division of labor. The mechanisms organizing the spatial distribution of workers, separating inside and outside workers without central control, is an essential, but so far neglected aspect of division of labor. In this study, we investigate the behavioral mechanisms governing the spatial distribution of individual workers and its physiological underpinning in the ant Myrmica rubra. By investigating worker personalities we uncover position-associated behavioral syndromes. This context-independent and temporally stable set of correlated behaviors (positive association between movements and attraction towards light) could promote the basic separation between inside (brood tenders) and outside workers (foragers). These position-associated behavior syndromes are coupled with a high probability to perform tasks, located at the defined position, and a characteristic cuticular hydrocarbon profile. We discuss the potentially physiological causes for the observed behavioral syndromes and highlight how the study of animal personalities can provide new insights for the study of division of labor and self-organized processes in general.
DDC-Sachgruppe:	590 Tiere (Zoologie) 590 Zoological sciences
Veröffentlichende Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Organisationseinheit:	FB 02 Sozialwiss., Medien u. Sport
Veröffentlichungsort:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-7810
Version:	Published version
Publikationstyp:	Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Nutzungsrechte:	CC BY
Informationen zu den Nutzungsrechten:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Zeitschrift:	PLoS one 9 1
Seitenzahl oder Artikelnummer:	e79616
Verlag:	PLoS
Verlagsort:	Lawrence, Kan.
Erscheinungsdatum:	2014
ISSN:	1932-6203
URL der Originalveröffentlichung:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079616
DOI der Originalveröffentlichung:	10.1371/journal.pone.0079616
Enthalten in den Sammlungen:	DFG-OA-Publizieren (2012 - 2017)