A real-time feedback system stabilises the regulation of worker reproduction under various colony sizes

• Simeon Adejumo ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: s.adejumo@pgr.reading.ac.uk (SA); y.hayashi@reading.ac.uk (YH)

  Affiliation Biomedical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4732-4355

  ⨯
• Tomonori Kikuchi,

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

  Affiliation Marine Biosystems Research Center, Chiba University, Tokawa 1, Choshi City, Chiba, Japan

  ⨯
• Kazuki Tsuji,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Subtropical Agro-Environmental Sciences, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan

  ⨯
• Kana Maruyama-Onda,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Nagoya Protect Station, Shimizu Sub-Station, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Shizuoka, Japan

  ⨯
• Ken Sugawara,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Tohoku Gakuin University, 2-1-1, Tenjinzawa, Izumi-ku, Sendai, Japan

  ⨯
• Yoshikatsu Hayashi

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: s.adejumo@pgr.reading.ac.uk (SA); y.hayashi@reading.ac.uk (YH)

  Current address: Biomedical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

  Affiliation Biomedical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

  ⨯