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Personality in ants and factors influencing its development

2015/17/B/NZ8/02492

Keywords:

social insects ants personality behaviour,division of labour

Descriptors:

  • NZ8_3: Animal behaviour
  • NZ8_12: Zoology
  • NZ8_1: Evolutionary biology

Panel:

NZ8 - Evolutionary and environmental biology: evolution, ecology, population biology, biodiversity, biogeography

Host institution :

Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

woj. mazowieckie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Magdalena Witek 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 3

Call: OPUS 9 - announced on 2015-03-16

Amount awarded: 579 924 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2016-01-27

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2019-07-26

Project duration:: 42 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Laptop.
  2. Laptopy (2 szt.) (10 000 PLN)
  3. Komputer (12 000 PLN)
  4. EthoVision XT (30 000 PLN)
  5. Kamery (10 szt.) (3 500 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (5)
  1. The influence of colony traits on the collective behaviour of Myrmica scabrinodis ants
    Authors:
    Istvan Maak, Jesicca Camera, Luca Pietro Casacci, Francesca Barbero, Gema Trigos-Peral, Piotr Ślipiński, Simona Bonelli, Michele Zaccagno, Magdalena Witek
    Academic press:
    Insect Conservation and Diversity (rok: 2019, tom: 12, strony: 481-491), Wydawca: Wiley
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1111/icad.12352 - link to the publication
  2. Habitat features and colony characteristics influencing ant personality and its fitness consequences
    Authors:
    Istvan Maak, Gema Trigos-Peral, Piotr Ślipiński P, Irena Maria Grzes , Gergely Horváth, Magdalena Witek
    Academic press:
    Behavioral Ecology , Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
    DOI:
    10.1093/beheco/araa112 - link to the publication
  3. The influence of age, development temperature and individual behavioural variation on temperature-related foraging risk of Formica cinerea ants
    Authors:
    Piotr Ślipiński, Gema Trigos Peral, István Maák, Iga Wojciechowska, Magdalena Witek
    Academic press:
    Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology , Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Submitted
    DOI:
    brak - link to the publication
  4. Colony size and brood investment of Myrmica rubra ant colonies in habitats invaded by goldenrods
    Authors:
    Irena Maria Grześ, Piotr Ślipiński, Hanna Babik, · Dawid Moroń · Bartosz Walter · Gema Trigos Peral · Istvan Maak · Magdalena Witek
    Academic press:
    Insectes Sociaux (rok: 2018, tom: 65, strony: 275-280), Wydawca: Springer Basel
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s00040-018-0612-0 - link to the publication
  5. Lock-picks: fungal infection facilitates the intrusion of strangers into ant colonies
    Authors:
    Enikő Csata, Natalia Timuș, Magdalena Witek, Luca Pietro Casacci, Christophe Lucas, Anne-Geneviève Bagnères, Anna Sztencel-Jabłonka, Francesca Barbero, Simona Bonelli, László Rákosy, Bálint Markó
    Academic press:
    Scientific Reports (rok: 2017, tom: 7, strony: 46323), Wydawca: Nature Publishing Group
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1038/srep46323 - link to the publication

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