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Assessing assessing: numerical competence in ants

Research Project

Project/Area Number 25440187
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Evolutionary biology
Research InstitutionIwate University

Principal Investigator

クロニン アダム  岩手大学, (連合)農学研究科(研究院), 研究員 (30620489)

Project Period (FY) 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status Discontinued (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
KeywordsFormicidae / Counting / Social behaviour / Ants / consensus decisons / swarm intelligence / counting
Outline of Annual Research Achievements

Completed field collections of samples in Towada area. Continued behavioural studies in the laboratory toward production of high impact article on group size effects on collective behaviour (in prep.).
Attended the International Conference of the International Union for the study of social insects in Cairns, Australia and presented a study on group size effects on ant behaviour. Following this, visited Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, for discussions with collaborator Michael Schwarz.
Completed genetic component of a study on behavioural variation in Myrmecina with collaborators in Kagawa, Hokkaido, Tokyo and Australia (manuscript in prep).
During March 2015 I was an invited researcher at University Pierre et Marie curie in Paris, where, with collaborators Thibaud Monnin and Nicolas Loeuille, we completed a modelling study of ant behaviour (in review in Ecography).
Non-renewal of my contract at Iwate University means that the final parts of the project cannot be complete. However, significant data have been accumulated allowing several studies to be written up (currently in progress).

Report

(2 results)
  • 2014 Annual Research Report
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All 2015 2014 2013

All Journal Article (5 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 3 results) Presentation (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] Individual and Group Personalities Characterise Consensus Decision-Making in an Ant2015

    • Author(s)
      Adam L Cronin
    • Journal Title

      Ethology

      Volume: 121 Issue: 7 Pages: 1-11

    • DOI

      10.1111/eth.12386

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Ratio-dependent quantity discrimination in quorum sensing ants2014

    • Author(s)
      Adam L Cronin
    • Journal Title

      Animal Cognition

      Volume: 17 Issue: 6 Pages: 1261-1268

    • DOI

      10.1007/s10071-014-0758-8

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Ants work harder during decision making in small groups2014

    • Author(s)
      Adam L Cronin & Martin C Stumpe
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the Royal Society Interface

      Volume: 11 Issue: 98 Pages: 20140641-20140641

    • DOI

      10.1098/rsif.2014.0641

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Synergy between pheromone trails and quorum responses underlies consensus decision making in an ant2013

    • Author(s)
      Adam L Cronin
    • Journal Title

      Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology

      Volume: 67 Pages: 1643-1651

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Conditional use of social and private information guides house-hunting ants.2013

    • Author(s)
      Adam L Cronin
    • Journal Title

      PLoS One

      Volume: 8

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Group size and consensus decisions in the ant Myrmecina nipponica.2014

    • Author(s)
      Adam L Cronin13-18 July 2014
    • Organizer
      International Congress of IUSSI 2014
    • Place of Presentation
      Cairns, Australia
    • Year and Date
      2014-07-13 – 2014-07-18
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Group size effects on decision making2013

    • Author(s)
      Adam L Cronin
    • Organizer
      ANet Meeting Borneo
    • Place of Presentation
      Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Agent based models of ant reproductive strategies2013

    • Author(s)
      Adam L Cronin and Monnin T.
    • Organizer
      ANet Meeting Borneo
    • Place of Presentation
      Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-07-25   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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