Socially driven negative feedback regulates activity and energy use in ant colonies

• Maurizio Porfiri ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mporfiri@nyu.edu

  Affiliations Center for Urban Science and Progress, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1480-3539

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• Nicole Abaid,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0053-4710

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• Simon Garnier

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3886-3974

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