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4008
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8084
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368

Overview

Audrey Dussutour is affiliated with the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées in France. Their research primarily focuses on the Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to a variety of specialized subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Biomedical Engineering; Plant Science; Genetics; and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The topics explored in their work encompass Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research, Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology, Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant and animal studies, Micro and Nano Robotics, and Neural dynamics and brain function.

Dussutour has published recent papers that include the following:

  • Learning in single cell organisms, 2021, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • Steering self-organisation through confinement, 2023, Soft Matter
  • Adaptive behaviour and learning in slime moulds: the role of oscillations, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Nutritional Dimensions of Invasive Success, 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Substrate and cell fusion influence on slime mold network dynamics, 2021, Scientific Reports

The primary publication venues where Dussutour has contributed most frequently include:

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Biology
  • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Dussutour collaborates regularly with a group of frequent co-authors, including:

  • N. A. M. Araújo
  • Liesbeth M. C. Janssen
  • Thomas Barois
  • G. Boffetta
  • Itai Cohen

Best Publications

  • Optimal traffic organization in ants under crowded conditions

    Audrey Dussutour;Audrey Dussutour;Vincent Fourcassié;Dirk Helbing;Jean-Louis Deneubourg

  • Communal nutrition in ants.

    Audrey Dussutour;Audrey Dussutour;Stephen J. Simpson

  • Amoeboid organism solves complex nutritional challenges

    Audrey Dussutour;Tanya Latty;Madeleine Beekman;Stephen J. Simpson

  • Slime mold uses an externalized spatial “memory” to navigate in complex environments

    Chris R. Reid;Tanya Latty;Audrey Dussutour;Madeleine Beekman

  • Habituation in non-neural organisms: evidence from slime moulds.

    Romain R.P. Boisseau;David Vogel;Audrey Dussutour

  • Ant workers die young and colonies collapse when fed a high-protein diet

    A. Dussutour;S. J. Simpson

  • Description of a simple synthetic diet for studying nutritional responses in ants

    Audrey Dussutour;S. J. Simpson

  • Amplification of individual preferences in a social context: the case of wall-following in ants

    Audrey Dussutour;Jean-Louis Deneubourg;Vincent Fourcassié

  • Carbohydrate regulation in relation to colony growth in ants

    Audrey Dussutour;S. J. Simpson

  • Slime mould: The fundamental mechanisms of biological cognition

    Jordi Vallverdú;Oscar Castro;Richard Mayne;Max Talanov

  • Noise improves collective decision-making by ants in dynamic environments

    Audrey Dussutour;Madeleine Beekman;Stamatios C. Nicolis;Bernd Meyer

  • The role of multiple pheromones in food recruitment by ants

    Audrey Dussutour;Audrey Dussutour;Stamatios C. Nicolis;Grace Shephard;Madeleine Beekman

  • Ant traffic rules

    Vincent Fourcassié;Vincent Fourcassié;Audrey Dussutour;Audrey Dussutour;Jean-Louis Deneubourg

  • Key Factors for the Emergence of Collective Decision in Invertebrates

    Raphaël Jeanson;Audrey Dussutour;Vincent Fourcassié

  • Direct transfer of learned behaviour via cell fusion in non-neural organisms

    David Vogel;Audrey Dussutour

  • Temporal organization of bi-directional traffic in the ant Lasius niger (L.).

    Audrey Dussutour;Jean-Louis Deneubourg;Vincent Fourcassié

  • Amoeboid organism uses extracellular secretions to make smart foraging decisions

    Chris R. Reid;Madeleine Beekman;Tanya Latty;Audrey Dussutour

  • Drosophila females trade off good nutrition with high-quality oviposition sites when choosing foods

    Mathieu Lihoreau;Laure-Anne Poissonnier;Laure-Anne Poissonnier;Guillaume Isabel;Audrey Dussutour

  • Individual and collective problem-solving in a foraging context in the leaf-cutting ant Atta colombica

    Audrey Dussutour;Audrey Dussutour;Audrey Dussutour;Jean Louis Deneubourg;Samuel Beshers;Vincent Fourcassié

  • Individual differences influence collective behaviour in social caterpillars

    Audrey Dussutour;Audrey Dussutour;Stamatios C. Nicolis;Stamatios C. Nicolis;Emma Despland;Stephen J Simpson

  • Crowding increases foraging efficiency in the leaf-cutting ant Atta colombica

    Audrey Dussutour;Audrey Dussutour;Audrey Dussutour;Samuel Beshers;Jean-Louis Deneubourg;Vincent Fourcassie

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen J. Simpson
Stephen J. Simpson University of Sydney
Jean-Louis Deneubourg
Jean-Louis Deneubourg Université Libre de Bruxelles
Madeleine Beekman
Madeleine Beekman University of Sydney
Michael Levin
Michael Levin Tufts University
František Baluška
František Baluška University of Bonn
Dirk Helbing
Dirk Helbing ETH Zurich
Andrew Adamatzky
Andrew Adamatzky University of the West of England
Anders Johansson
Anders Johansson Umeå University
Emmanuel Flahaut
Emmanuel Flahaut Paul Sabatier University

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