TY - JOUR
T1 - Me and we
T2 - The interplay between individual and group behavioral variation in social collectives
AU - Leboeuf, Adria C.
AU - Grozinger, Christina M.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Clare Rittschof, Pavan Ramdya, Nathalie Stroeymeyt and Laurent Keller for helpful discussion and comments on the manuscript. This work was supported by an NSF-CAREER grant to CMG, and ACL is supported by the University of Lausanne , the Swiss National Science Foundation, ERC Starting Independent Grant to Richard Benton and an ERC Advanced Grant to Laurent Keller.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2014/11
Y1 - 2014/11
N2 - In social insects, substantial behavioral variation exists among individuals and across colonies. Here, we discuss the role of individual variation in shaping behavioral tendencies of social groups,and highlight gapsinour knowledge about the roleofthe social group in modulating individual behavioral tendencies. We summarize our knowledge of the genetic mechanisms underpinning these processes, and describe the use of genomic tools to better understand the influence of social context on individuals. We discuss rapid collective phasic transitions, in which a group of individuals engages in a common novel behavior together, as a potentially highly informative model system in which to comprehensively investigate the interplay between individual and group variation.
AB - In social insects, substantial behavioral variation exists among individuals and across colonies. Here, we discuss the role of individual variation in shaping behavioral tendencies of social groups,and highlight gapsinour knowledge about the roleofthe social group in modulating individual behavioral tendencies. We summarize our knowledge of the genetic mechanisms underpinning these processes, and describe the use of genomic tools to better understand the influence of social context on individuals. We discuss rapid collective phasic transitions, in which a group of individuals engages in a common novel behavior together, as a potentially highly informative model system in which to comprehensively investigate the interplay between individual and group variation.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cois.2014.09.010
DO - 10.1016/j.cois.2014.09.010
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84931573759
SN - 2214-5745
VL - 5
SP - 16
EP - 24
JO - Current Opinion in Insect Science
JF - Current Opinion in Insect Science
IS - 1
ER -