Studying ants to find out how colony size affects patterns of behavior, energy use
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 11:32
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- How does size affect the organization and physiology of superorganisms such as bacterial communities, insect colonies or human cities? James Waters and Tate Holbrook, graduate students in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, work on answering this question by studying how colony size affects the patterns of behavior and energy use in ant colonies.