S. Garnier

Phenology across scales: an intercontinental analysis of leaf-out dates in temperate deciduous tree communities

The paper analyzes leaf-out variability across temperate deciduous forests in North America and Europe, finding similar intra-community variability despite differences in species richness and environmental conditions.

Leaderless consensus decision-making determines cooperative transport direction in weaver ants

This study shows weaver ants use a wisdom of the crowd strategy for cooperative transport, pooling group opinions to improve navigational accuracy.

Motile Living Biobots Self-Construct from Adult Human Somatic Progenitor Seed Cells

The paper demonstrates that adult human somatic cells can self-construct into motile biobots with diverse behaviors and tissue repair capabilities without genetic modification.

Simulated poaching affects global connectivity and efficiency in social networks of African savanna elephants - an exemplar of how human disturbance impacts group-living species

This paper simulates poaching effects on African savanna elephant social networks, showing that removing socially central individuals reduces network connectivity and efficiency.

Ant collective behavior is heritable and shaped by selection

The paper estimates heritability and fitness consequences of collective behaviors in pharaoh ants, finding moderate heritability and evidence of directional selection.

Loss of cyclin A2 in murine colonic epithelial cells disrupts colon homeostasis by triggering DNA damage and dysplasia and high cyclin A2 expression is a good-prognosis factor in patients with colorectal cancer

This study shows that loss of cyclin A2 in colonic epithelial cells causes DNA damage, dysplasia, and colon inflammation, while high cyclin A2 expression is linked to better prognosis in colorectal cancer.

Optimal construction of army ant living bridges

This paper extends a mathematical model of army ant living bridge construction to predict optimal formation and final configuration under various scenarios.

The adaptive significance of phasic colony cycles in army ants

This study models the adaptive significance of phasic colony cycles in army ants, showing cyclic reproduction is favored under specific foraging cost scenarios.