Short-term activity cycles impede information transmission in ant colonies

• Thomas O. Richardson ,

  * E-mail: thomas.richardson@unil.ch, tom.richardson30@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0220-4897

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• Jonas I. Liechti ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jonas I. Liechti, Nathalie Stroeymeyt

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3447-3060

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• Nathalie Stroeymeyt ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jonas I. Liechti, Nathalie Stroeymeyt

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8047-449X

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• Sebastian Bonhoeffer,

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8052-3925

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• Laurent Keller

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

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