About the Authors

Roger Schürch

R.Schuerch@sussex.ac.uk

Affiliation Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, United Kingdom

Christoph Grüter

Current address: Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Affiliation Departamento de Biologia da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS CG. Performed the experiments: RS CG. Analyzed the data: RS CG. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: RS CG. Programming and testing of the model: RS CG.