video: Worker ants, who are all female, communicate with social partners to coordinate complex behaviors such as foraging. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 1, 2016 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by D.F. Simola at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA, and colleagues was titled, "Epigenetic (re)programming of caste-specific behavior in the ant Camponotus floridanus." view more
Credit: Riley J. Graham