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Analyzing life expectancy as a major factor determining pro-social behavior in ants: rescue actions among Formicidae

2018/31/N/NZ8/02312

Keywords:

ants life expectancy prosocial behavior rescue behavior

Descriptors:

  • NZ8_2:
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Panel:

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

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Biologii

woj. małopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

Filip Krzysztof Turza 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 2

Call: PRELUDIUM 16 - announced on 2018-09-14

Amount awarded: 202 500 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2019-08-05

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2023-08-04

Project duration:: 48 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (6)
  1. Ants Co-Occurring with Predatory Antlions Show Unsuccessful Rescue Behavior towards Captured Nestmates
    Authors:
    Filip Turza, Gabriela Zuber, Michał Bzoma, Monika Prus, Michał Filipiak, Krzysztof Miler
    Academic press:
    Journal of Insect Behavior (rok: 2020, tom: 33, strony: 1–6), Wydawca: Springer Nature
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s10905-020-09739-9 - link to the publication
  2. Comparative analysis of experimental testing procedures for the elicitation of rescue actions in ants
    Authors:
    Filip Turza, Krzysztof Miler
    Academic press:
    Current Zoology (rok: 2021, tom: nie dotyczy, strony: nie dotyczy), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/cz/zoab052 - link to the publication
  3. Small workers are more persistent when providing and requiring help in a monomorphic ant
    Authors:
    Filip Turza, Krzysztof Miler
    Academic press:
    Scientific Reports (rok: 2023, tom: 13, strony: 45666), Wydawca: Springer Nature
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1038/s41598-023-49012-5 - link to the publication
  4. Life expectancy in ants explains variation in helpfulness, regardless of phylogenetic relatedness
    Authors:
    Filip Turza, Daniel Stec, Diego Fontaneto, Krzysztof Miler
    Academic press:
    Behavioral Ecology (rok: 2025, tom: 36, strony: 45667), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/beheco/arae104 - link to the publication
  5. Injury shortens life expectancy in ants and affects some risk-related decisions of workers
    Authors:
    Filip Turza, Krzysztof Miler
    Academic press:
    Animal Cognition (rok: 2023, tom: 26, strony: 1643-1647), Wydawca: Springer Nature
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s10071-023-01810-0 - link to the publication
  6. O Sister, Where Art Thou?—A Review on Rescue of Imperiled Individuals in Ants
    Authors:
    Krzysztof Miler, Filip Turza
    Academic press:
    Biology (rok: 2021, tom: 10, strony: 45678), Wydawca: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3390/biology10111079 - link to the publication