Thermoregulation strategies in ants in comparison to other social insects, with a focus on red wood ants (Formica rufa group)

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.2-280.v2" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.2-280.v2</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.2-280.v2" target="_blank" >10.12688/f1000research.2-280.v2</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Thermoregulation strategies in ants in comparison to other social insects, with a focus on red wood ants (Formica rufa group)

Original language description

Temperature influences every aspect of ant biology, especially metabolic rate, growth and development. Maintenance of high inner nest temperature increases the rate of sexual brood development and thereby increases the colony fitness. Insect societies can achieve better thermoregulation than solitary insects due to the former's ability to build large and elaborated nests and display complex behaviour. In ants and termites the upper part of the nest, the mound, often works as a solar collector and can also have an efficient ventilation system. Two thermoregulatory strategies could be applied. Firstly the ants use an increased thermal gradient available in the mound for brood relocation. Nurse workers move the brood according to the thermal gradients toensure the ideal conditions for development. A precise perception of temperature and evolution of temperature preferences are needed to make the correct choices. A second thermoregulatory strategy used by mound nesting ants is keeping a h

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

F1000 Research

ISSN

2046-1402

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Volume of the periodical

2

Issue of the periodical within the volume

March 2014

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

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