Better tired than lost: Turtle ant trail networks favor coherence over short edges

• Arjun Chandrasekhar,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• James A. R. Marshall,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1506-167X

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• Cortnea Austin,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4232-2417

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• Saket Navlakha ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: navlakha@cshl.edu (SN); dmgordon@stanford.edu (DMG)

  Affiliation Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

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• Deborah M. Gordon

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: navlakha@cshl.edu (SN); dmgordon@stanford.edu (DMG)

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1090-9539

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