Ant navigation: how complex behaviours emerge from mini-brains in interaction with their natural habitats

Project Information

EMERG-ANT

Grant agreement ID: 759817

DOI 10.3030/759817

Project closed

EC signature date 18 September 2017

Start date 1 January 2018

End date 30 June 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 439 893,00

EU contribution € 1 439 893,00

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

Publications

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Insect navigation: Bumblebees walk the walk

Author(s): Antoine Wystrach
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 32, 2024, Page(s) R746-R748, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.05.055

Peer reviewed articles (13)

Aversive view memories and risk perception in navigating ants

Author(s): Cody A. Freas, Antoine Wystrach, Sebastian Schwarz, Marcia L. Spetch
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 12, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-06859-4

An intrinsic oscillator underlies visual navigation in ants

Author(s): Leo Clement, Sebastian Schwarz, Antoine Wystrach
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 33, 2024, Page(s) 411-422.e5, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.059

Scanning behaviour in ants: an interplay between random-rate processes and oscillators

Author(s): Sudhakar Deeti, Ken Cheng, Paul Graham, Antoine Wystrach
Published in: Journal of Comparative Physiology A, Issue 209, 2023, Page(s) 625-639, ISSN 0340-7594
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-023-01628-8

Towards a multi-level understanding in insect navigation

Author(s): Florent Le Moël, Antoine Wystrach
Published in: Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2020, ISSN 2214-5745
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2020.10.006

The Central Complex as a Potential Substrate for Vector Based Navigation

Author(s): Florent Le Moël, Thomas Stone, Mathieu Lihoreau, Antoine Wystrach, Barbara Webb
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 10, 2019, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00690

How do backward-walking ants (Cataglyphis velox) cope with navigational uncertainty?

Author(s): Sebastian Schwarz, Leo Clement, Evripidis Gkanias, Antoine Wystrach
Published in: Animal Behaviour, Issue 164, 2020, Page(s) 133-142, ISSN 0003-3472
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.04.006

Opponent processes in visual memories: A model of attraction and repulsion in navigating insects’ mushroom bodies

Author(s): Florent Le Möel, Antoine Wystrach
Published in: PLOS Computational Biology, Issue 16/2, 2020, Page(s) e1007631, ISSN 1553-7358
Publisher: PLOS
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007631

Rapid Aversive and Memory Trace Learning during Route Navigation in Desert Ants

Author(s): Antoine Wystrach, Cornelia Buehlmann, Sebastian Schwarz, Ken Cheng, Paul Graham
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 30/10, 2020, Page(s) 1927-1933.e2, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.082

The role of attractive and repellent scene memories in ant homing ( Myrmecia croslandi )

Author(s): Trevor Murray, Zoltán Kócsi, Hansjürgen Dahmen, Ajay Narendra, Florent Le Möel, Antoine Wystrach, Jochen Zeil
Published in: The Journal of Experimental Biology, Issue 223/3, 2020, Page(s) jeb210021, ISSN 0022-0949
Publisher: The Company of Biologists Ltd.
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.210021

Analysis of fast calcium dynamics of honey bee olfactory coding

Author(s): Marco Paoli, Antoine Wystrach, Brice Ronsin, Martin Giurfa
Published in: eLife, Issue 13, 2024, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.93789.3

Route-following ants respond to alterations of the view sequence

Author(s): Sebastian Schwarz, Michael Mangan, Barbara Webb, Antoine Wystrach
Published in: The Journal of Experimental Biology, Issue 223/14, 2020, Page(s) jeb218701, ISSN 0022-0949
Publisher: The Company of Biologists Ltd.
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.218701

CATER: Combined Animal Tracking & Environment Reconstruction

Author(s): Lars Haalck, Michael Mangan, Antoine Wystrach, Leo Clement, Barbara Webb, Benjamin Risse
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 9, 2024, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adg2094

Movements, embodiment and the emergence of decisions. Insights from insect navigation

Author(s): Antoine Wystrach
Published in: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Issue 564, 2022, Page(s) 70-77, ISSN 0006-291X
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2021.04.114

Other (1)

A lateralised design for the interaction of visual memories and heading representations in navigating ants

Author(s): Antoine Wystrach, Florent Le Moël, Leo Clement, Sebastian Schwarz
Published in: BioRxiv, 2020
Publisher: BioRxiv
DOI: 10.1101/2020.08.13.249193