The Gordon Lab
D. M. Gordon. 2023. The Ecology of Collective Behavior. Princeton University Press.
D. M. Gordon. 2010. Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior. Princeton University Press.
D. M. Gordon. 1999. Ants at Work: how an insect society is organized. Free Press, Simon and Schuster. 2000 paperback, W. W. Norton.
| 2024. Gordon, D. M. The life history of harvester ant colonies. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0332 | PDF available by request |
| 2024. Butler, I. A. E., Butterfield, T., Janda, M., Gordon, D.M. Colony life history of the tropical arboreal ant, Cephalotes goniodontus De Andrade, 1999. Insectes Sociaux. DOI: 10.1007/s00040-024-00974-3 | Website |
| 2023. Gordon, D. M., Steiner, E., Das, B., Walker, N. S. Harvester ant colonies differ in collective behavioural plasticity to regulate water loss. Royal Society Open Science. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.230726 | Website |
| 2023. Nelson, R. A., MacArthur-Waltz, D. J., Gordon, D. M. Critical thermal limits and temperature-dependent walking speed may mediate coexistence between the native winter ant (Prenolepis imparis) and the invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile). Journal of Thermal Biology 111 (2023) 103392. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2022.103392 | |
| 2023. Bas, D. and Gordon, D. M. Biological rhythms and task allocation in ant colonies. Current Opinion in Insect Science 58:101062. DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2023.101062 | |
| 2023. F. R. Adler et al. Modeling collective cell behavior in cancer: Perspectives from an interdisciplinary conversation. Cell Systems 14:252–257. DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2023.03.002 | |
| 2023. Gordon, D. M. Collective behavior in relation with changing environments: Dynamics, modularity, and agency. Evolution & Development, 1–9. DOI: 10.1111/ede.12439 | |
| 2023. Garg, S., Shiragur, K., Gordon, D. M., Charikar, M. Distributed algorithms from arboreal ants for the shortest path problem. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences 120 (6) e2207959120v. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2207959120 | Website |
| 2022. Gordon D. M. The red harvester ant. Nature Methods 19: 1324–1325. DOI: 10.1038/s41592-022-01671-4 | Website |
| 2022. Sundaram, M., Steiner, E., and D. M. Gordon. Rainfall, neighbors and foraging: the dynamics of a population of red harvester ant colonies 1988-2019. Ecological Monographs. DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1503 | PDF or Website |
| 2022. Nova, N., Pagliari R and D.M. Gordon. Individual variation does not regulate forager response to humidity in harvester ants. Frontiers Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.756204 | Website |
| 2021. Chandrasekhar, A., Marshall, J. A. R., Austin C., Navlakha, S., and Gordon, D. M. Better tired than lost: Turtle ant trail networks favor coherence over short edges. PLoS Computational Biology. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009523. | Website |
| 2021. Couper, L. I., Sanders, N. J., Heller, N. E. and D.M. Gordon. Multiyear drought exacerbates long-term effects of climate on an invasive ant species. Ecology. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3476 | Website |
| 2021. MacArthur-Waltz, D J., Nelson R. A., Lee, G.I., and D. M. Gordon. Tree preference and temporal activity patterns for a native ant community in an urbanized California woodland. J. Insect Behavior. DOI: 10.1007/s10905-021-09778-w | Website |
| 2021. Ouellette, NT and DM Gordon. Goals and limitations of modeling collective behavior in biological systems. Frontiers in Physics. DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2021.68782 | Website |
| 2020. Gordon, Deborah M. Movement, encounter rate, and collective behavior in ant colonies. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 1-6. DOI: 10.1093/aesa/saaa036 | Website |
| 2020. Shin, M., D A Friedman, D. A., Gordon, D. M., and Venton B. J. Measurement of natural variation of neurotransmitter tissue content in red harvester ant brains among different colonies. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 412:6167–6175 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-019-02355-3 | Website |
| 2020. Friedman DA, York RA, Hilliard AT and DM Gordon. Gene expression variation in the brains of harvester ant foragers is associated with collective behavior. Communications Biology 3, 100. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-0813-8 | Website |
| 2019. El Hady, A., Davidson, J. D., and Gordon, D. M. Editorial: An Ecological Perspective on Decision-Making: Empirical and Theoretical Studies in Natural and Natural-Like Environments. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7:461. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00461 | Website |
| 2019. Gordon. D. M. Measuring collective behavior: an ecological approach. Theory in Biosciences. DOI: 10.1007/s12064-019-00302-5 | |
| 2019. Adler F.A., Gordon, D.M. Cancer Ecology and Evolution: Positive interactions and system vulnerability. Current Opinion in Systems Biology 17. DOI: 10.1016/j.coisb.2019.09.001 | |
| 2019. Moses M. E., Cannon J L, Gordon D M., Forrest, S. Distributed adaptive search in T-cells: lessons from ants. Frontiers in Immunology 10. DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.01357 | Website |
| 2019. Friedman D.A., Greene M.J., Gordon D. M. The physiology of forager hydration and variation among harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) colonies in collective foraging behavior. Scientific Reports 9. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-41586-3 | Website |
| 2019. Gordon, D. M. The ecology of collective behavior in ants. Annual Review of Entomology. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-011118-111923 | Website |
| 2018. Pagliara R., Gordon DM, Leonard NE. Regulation of harvester ant foraging as a closed-loop excitable system. PLoS Computational Biology DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006200 | Website |
| 2018. Friedman, D. A., Pilko, A., Skowronska-Krawczyk, D., Krasinska, K., Parker, J. W., Hirsh, J., Gordon, D. M. The role of dopamine in the collective regulation of foraging in harvester ants. iScience. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2018.09.001 | Website |
| 2018. Burford, B. P., Lee, G., Friedman, D. A., Brachmann, E., Khan, R., MacArthur-Waltz, D. J., McCarty, A. D., Gordon, D. M. Foraging behavior and locomotion of the invasive Argentine ant from winter aggregations. PloS ONE, 13(8), e0202117. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202117 | Website |
| 2018. Chandrasekhar, A., Gordon, D. M., Navlakha, S. A distributed algorithm to maintain and repair the trail networks of arboreal ants. Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-27160-3 | Website |
| 2017. Gordon, D. M. Local regulation of trail networks of the arboreal turtle ant, Cephalotes goniodontus. American Naturalist. DOI: 10.1086/693418 | |
| 2017. Davidson, J. D. and Gordon, D. M. Spatial organization and interactions of harvester ants during foraging activity. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0413 | Website or PDF |
| 2016. Gordon, D. M. The evolution of the algorithms for collective behavior. Cell Systems 3:514-520 DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2016.10.013 | PDF or website |
| 2016. Ingram, K. K., Gordon, D.M., Friedman, D. A., Greene, M., Kahler, J., Peteru, S. Context-dependent expression of the foraging gene in field colonies of ants: the interacting roles of age, environment and task. Proceedings Royal Society B 283 20160841; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0841 | View |
| 2016. Davidson, J.S., Auraco-Aliaga, R.P., Crow, S., Gordon, D.M., Goldman, M.S. Effect of interactions between harvester ants on forager decisions. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 05 October 2016. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00115 | View |
| 2016. Friedman, D. A. and Gordon, D. M. Ant genetics: reproductive physiology, worker morphology, and behavior. Annual Reviews Neuroscience 39:41-56. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-070815-013927 | View |
| 2016. Jandt, J.M. and Gordon, D.M. The behavioral ecology of variation in social insects. Current Opinion in Insect Science 15:40-44. DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2016.02.012 | |
| 2016. Dosmann, A., Bahet, N., and D. M. Gordon. Experimental modulation of external microbiome affects nestmate recognition in harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus). Peer J DOI 10.7717/peerj.1566 | View on PeerJ (open access) |
| 2016. Gordon, D.M. From division of labor to collective behavior. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. DOI: 10.1007/s00265-015-2045-3 | View on Springer Link (open access) |
| 2015. Pless, E., Queirolo, J., Pinter-Wollman, N., Crow, S.P., Allen, K., Mathur, M.B., Gordon, D.M. Interactions increase forager availability and activity in harvester ants. PLoS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141971 | View on PLoS One |
| 2015. Esponda, F., Gordon, D.M. Distributed nestmate recognition in ants. Proceedings Royal Society B. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2838 | Proceedings Royal Society B website |
| 2015. Countryman, S.M., Stumpe, M.C., Crow, S.P., Adler, F.R., Greene, M.J., Vonshak, M., Gordon, D.M. Collective search by ants in microgravity. Frontiers Ecology Evolution. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00025 | frontiers website |
| 2015. Vonshak, M. and Gordon D. M. Intermediate disturbance promotes invasive ant abundance. Biological Conservation 186:359-367. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.03.024 | |
| 2014. Gordon, D.M. The ecology of collective behavior. PloS Biology DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001805 | View on PLoS Biology |
| 2014. Gordon, D. M. and N. E. Heller. The invasive Argentine ant Linepithema humile (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Northern California reserves: from foraging behavior to local spread. Myrmecological News 19:103-110. | Myrmecological News Website |
| 2013. Gordon, D.M. The rewards of restraint in the collective regulation of foraging by harvester ant colonies. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature12137 | Nature website or PDF |
| 2013. Pringle, E. G., Ackay, E., Raab, T., Dirzo, R., and D. M. Gordon. Water stress strengthens mutualism among ants, trees, and scale insects. PLoS Biology. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001705 | View on PLoS Biology |
| 2013. Ingram, K.K., Pilko A., Heer J., and D.M. Gordon. Colony life history and lifetime reproductive success of red harvester ant colonies. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12036 | |
| 2013. Gordon D. M., Pilko A., DeBortoli N., Ingram K. K. Does an ecological advantage produce the asymmetric lineage ratio in a harvester ant population? Oecologia. DOI 10.1007/s00442-013-2690-z | View on Springer Link (open access) |
| 2013. Pinter-Wollman, N., Bala A., Merrell A., Queirolo J., Stumpe M.C., Holmes S., D. M. Gordon. Harvester ants use interactions to regulate forager activation and availability. Animal Behaviour 86(1):197-207 | |
| 2013. Gordon, D.M., Dektar, K.N., Pinter-Wollman, N. Harvester ant colony variation in foraging activity and response to humidity. PLoS ONE 8(5): e63363. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063363 | View on PLoS ONE |
| 2013. Greene, M.J., Pinter-Wollman, N., and D.M. Gordon. Interactions with combined chemical cues inform harvester ant foragers' decisions to leave the nest in search of food. PLoS ONE 8(1):e52219. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0052219 | View on PLoS ONE |
| 2013. Sturgis, S.J. and D.M. Gordon. Aggression is task-dependent in the red harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus). Behavioral Ecology 24(2):532-539 | |
| 2013. T P Flanagan, N M Pinter-Wollman, M E Moses, D M Gordon. Fast and flexible: Argentine ants recruit from nearby trails. PLoS One: 8(8): e70888. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0070888 | View on PLoS ONE |
| 2013. Pringle, E. G. and D. M. Gordon. Protection mutualisms and the community: geographic variation in an ant-plant symbiosis and the consequences for herbivores. Sociobiology 60(3): 242-251. DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v60i3.242-251 | |
| 2012. Fitzgerald, K., Heller, N., and D.M. Gordon. Modeling the spread of the Argentine ant into natural areas: Habitat suitability and spread from neighboring sites. Ecological Modelling 247:262-272. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.07.036 | |
| 2012. Gordon, D.M. The dynamics of foraging trails in the tropical arboreal ant Cephalotes goniodontus. PLoS ONE 7(11):e50472. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050472 | View on PLoS ONE |
| 2012. Prabhakar, B., Dektar, K.N., and D.M. Gordon. The regulation of ant colony foraging activity without spatial information. PLoS Computational Biology 8(8):e1002670. DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002670 | View on PLoS Computational Biology |
| 2012. Pinter-Wollman, N., Gordon, D.M., and S. Holmes. Nest site and weather affect the personality of harvester ant colonies. Behavioral Ecology 23(5): 1022-1029. doi: 10.1093/beheco/ars066 | |
| 2012. Fitzgerald, K., Gordon, D.M. Effects of vegetation cover, presence of a native ant species, and human disturbance on colonization by Argentine Ants. Conservation Biology 26(3): 525-538. DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01836.x | |
| 2012. Pringle, E., Ramirez, S.R., Bonebrake, T.C., Gordon, D.M., Dirzo, R. Diversification and phylogeographic structure in widespread Azteca plant-ants from the northern Neotropics. Molecular Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05618.x | |
| 2012. Pringle, E., Dirzo, R., and D.M. Gordon. Plant defense, herbivory, and the growth of Cordia alliodora trees and their symbiotic Azteca ant colonies. Oecologia. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2340-x | |
| 2012. Sturgis, S., and D.M. Gordon. Nestmate recognition in ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): A review. Myrmecological News 16: 101-110 | Myrmecological News Website |
| 2012. Gordon, D. M. What we don't know about the evolution of cooperation in animals. In Cooperation and Its Evolution, Kim Sterelny, Richard Joyce, Brett Calcott, and Ben Fraser, Editors. Cambridge, Massuchesetts, The MIT Press. | |
| 2011. Sorrells, T.R., L.Y. Kuritzky, P.G. Kauhanen, K. Fitzgerald, S.J. Sturgis, J. Chen, C.A. Dijamco, K.N. Basurto, and D.M. Gordon. Chemical defense by the native Winter Ant (Prenolepis imparis) against the invasive Argentine Ant (Linepithema humile). PLoS ONE 6(4):e18717. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018717 | |
| 2011. Sturgis, S.J., M.J. Green, and D.M. Gordon. Hydrocarbons on harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) middens guide foragers to the nest. Journal of Chemical Ecology. DOI: 10.1007/s10886-011-9947-y | |
| 2011. Pinter-Wollman, N., R. Wollman, A. Guetz, S. Holmes, and D.M. Gordon. The effect of individual variation on the structure and function of interaction networks in harvester ants. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0059 | |
| 2011. Gordon, D.M. Twitter in the ant nest. Natural History 119(6): 10-41 | |
| 2011. Gordon, D.M. The fusion of ecology and behavioral ecology. Behavioral Ecology 22(2): 225-230 | |
| 2011. Gordon, D.M., A. Guetz, M.J. Greene, and S. Holmes. Colony variation in the collective regulation of foraging by harvester ants. Behavioral Ecology 22(2): 429-435 | |
| 2011. Pringle, E., Dirzo R. and D.M. Gordon. Indirect benefits of symbiotic coccoids for an ant-defended myrmecophytic tree. Ecology 92(1): 37-46 | |
| 2009. Suni, S. and D.M. Gordon. Fine-scale genetic structure and dispersal distance in the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus. Heredity 104(2):168-173 | |
| 2009. Frederickson, M.E. and D.M. Gordon. The intertwined population biology of two Amazonian myrmecophytes and their symbiotic ants. Ecology 90(6):1595-1607 |