1994
DOI: 10.1086/physzool.67.1.30163842
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The Burden within: The Energy Cost of Load Carriage in the Honeypot Ant, Myrmecocystus

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“…This finding has been corroborated in other studies with different ant species (Duncan & Crewe, 1993;Lighton et al, 1993;Duncan & Lighton, 1994;Duncan, 1995Duncan, , 1999, as well as other insects such as flies (Berrigan & Lighton, 1993, mites (Lighton & Duncan, 1995) and wasps (Duncan & Lighton, 1997 Usually, the cost of carrying a load has been evaluated using different laden and unladen individuals (exception: Nielsen, 2001) and artificial loads, except for a few studies, e.g. (Bartholomew et al, 1988;Duncan & Lighton, 1994;Fewell et al, 1996;Duncan, 1999). The second study was the only one that measured the cost of internal load carriage of a natural load, i.e.…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 85%
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“…This finding has been corroborated in other studies with different ant species (Duncan & Crewe, 1993;Lighton et al, 1993;Duncan & Lighton, 1994;Duncan, 1995Duncan, , 1999, as well as other insects such as flies (Berrigan & Lighton, 1993, mites (Lighton & Duncan, 1995) and wasps (Duncan & Lighton, 1997 Usually, the cost of carrying a load has been evaluated using different laden and unladen individuals (exception: Nielsen, 2001) and artificial loads, except for a few studies, e.g. (Bartholomew et al, 1988;Duncan & Lighton, 1994;Fewell et al, 1996;Duncan, 1999). The second study was the only one that measured the cost of internal load carriage of a natural load, i.e.…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 85%
“…Lighton et al, 1987Lighton et al, , 1993Bartholomew et al, 1988). However, similar results have been observed for M. mendax in a running tube respirometer (Duncan & Lighton, 1994), as well as in the field (Duncan & Lighton, 1994) and for Messor pergandei (Rissing, 1982;Lighton & Duncan, 2002). In fact, Lighton & Duncan (2002) have shown that the effect of load on running speed is in the opposite direction, i.e.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 55%
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