Erik T. Frank

This study shows that ants provide wound care based on pre-existing social and spatial proximity, identifying a transitional role between nurses and foragers.

The paper examines injury patterns in Central European ants, finding that feeding ecology and behavioral adaptations influence injury rates and locations across species.

The paper shows that ants can develop tolerance toward foreigners through chronic exposure but maintain it with sporadic exposure.

Antscan provides 2,193 standardized whole-body 3D synchrotron micro-CT datasets across 792 ant species (212 genera), pairing morphological volumes with automated deep-learning segmentation and genome sequencing projects.

This study shows that carpenter ants perform indiscriminate leg amputations on infected and sterile wounds, reducing mortality but not differentiating between injury states.

This study shows that social wound care can evolve in large groups, driven by injury rates and lethality rather than group size, using army ants as a case study.

This study shows that gut microbiota in honeybees affects the onset of foraging but not division of labor or associated physiological traits.