Pratt Lab
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Publications
Sumpter, D.J.T. and Pratt, S.C. (2008) Quorum responses and consensus decision-making. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, in press.
Healey, C.I.M. and Pratt, S.C. (2008) The effect of prior experience on nest site evaluation by the ant Temnothorax curvispinosus. Animal Behaviour, 76: 893-899. (PDF)
Pratt, S.C. (2008) Efficiency and regulation of recruitment during colony emigration by the ant Temnothorax curvispinosus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 62: 1369-1376. (PDF)
Berman, S., Halasz, A., Kumar, V. and Pratt, S.C. (2007) Algorithms for the analysis and synthesis of a bio-inspired swarm robotic system. In: E. Sahin, W. M. Spears and A. F. T. Winfield (Eds.), Swarm robotics (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4433: 56-70). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. (PDF)
Loomes, K.M., Stevens, S.A., O’Brien, M.L., Gonzalez, D.M., Ryan, M.J., Segalov, M., Dormans, N.J., Mimoto, M.S., Gibson, J.D., Sewell, W., Schaffer, A.A., Nah, H.D., Rappaport, E.F., Pratt, S.C., Dunwoodie, S.L. and Kusumi, K. (2007) Dll3 and Notch1 genetic interactions model axial segmental and craniofacial malformations of human birth defects. Developmental Dynamics 236: 2943-2951.
William, D.A., Saitta, B., Gibson, J.D., Traas, J., Markov, V., Gonzalez, D.M., Sewell, W., Anderson, D.M., Pratt, S.C., Rappaport, E.F. and Kusumi, K. (2007) Identification of oscillatory genes in somitogenesis from functional genomic analysis of a human mesenchymal stem cell model. Developmental Biology 305: 172-186.
Gabriel, A., Dapprich, J., Kunkel, M., Gresham, D., Pratt, S.C. and Dunham, M. (2006) Global mapping of transposon location. PLoS Genetics 2: 2026-2038. (PDF)
Pratt, S.C. and Sumpter, D.J.T. (2006) A tuneable algorithm for collective decision-making. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103: 15906-15910. (PDF)
Ruderfer, D., Pratt, S.C., Saidel, H. and Kruglyak, L. (2006) Population genomic analysis of outcrossing and recombination in yeast. Nature Genetics 38: 1077-1081.
Balch, T., Dellaert, F., Feldman, A., Guillory, A., Isbell, C., Khan, Z., Pratt, S.C., Stein, A. and Wilde, H. (2006) How multi-robot systems research will accelerate our understanding of social animal behavior. Proceedings of the IEEE 94: 1445-1463.
Gresham, D., Ruderfer, D.M., Pratt, S.C., Schacherer, J., Dunham, M., Botstein, D. and Kruglyak, L. (2006) Genome-wide mapping of polymorphisms at nucleotide resolution with a single DNA microarray. Science 311: 1932-1936. (PDF)
Pratt, S.C. (2005) Behavioral mechanisms of collective nest-site choice by the ant Temnothorax curvispinosus. Insectes Sociaux 52: 383-392. (PDF)
Pratt, S.C., Sumpter, D.J.T., Mallon, E.B. and Franks, N.R. (2005) An agent-based model of collective nest choice by the ant Temnothorax curvispinosus. Animal Behaviour 70: 1023-1036. (PDF)
Pratt, S.C. (2005) Quorum sensing by encounter rates in the ant Temnothorax curvispinosus. Behavioral Ecology 16: 488-496. (PDF)
Pratt, S.C. (2004) Collective control of the timing and type of comb construction by honey bees ( Apis mellifera). Apidologie 35: 193-205. (PDF)
Sumpter, D.J.T. and Pratt, S.C. (2003) A modelling framework for understanding social insect foraging. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 53: 131-144. (PDF)
McLeman, M.A., Pratt, S.C. , and Franks, N.R. (2002) Navigation using visual landmarks by the ant Leptothorax albipennis. Insectes Sociaux 49: 203-208. (PDF)
Franks, N.R., Pratt, S.C. , Britton, N.F., Mallon, E.B., and Sumpter, D.J.T. (2002) Information flow, opinion-polling and collective intelligence in house-hunting social insects. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences 357: 1567-1584. (PDF)
Britton, N.F., Franks, N.R., Pratt, S.C. , and Seeley, T.D. (2002) Deciding on a new home: how do honey bees agree? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 269: 1383-1388. (PDF)
Pratt, S.C. , Mallon, E.B., Sumpter, D.J.T., and Franks, N.R. (2002) Quorum sensing, recruitment, and collective decision-making during colony emigration by the ant Leptothorax albipennis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 52: 117-127. (PDF)
Pratt, S.C. , Brooks, S.E. and Franks, N.R. (2001) The use of edges in visual navigation by the ant Leptothorax albipennis . Ethology 107: 1125-1136. (PDF)
Mallon, E.B., Pratt, S.C. , and Franks, N.R. (2001) Individual and collective decision-making during nest site selection by the ant Leptothorax albipennis . Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 50: 352-359. (PDF)
Pratt, S.C. and Pierce, N.E. (2001) The cavity-dwelling ant Leptothorax curvispinosus uses nest geometry to discriminate among potential homes. Animal Behaviour 62: 281-287. (PDF)
Pratt, S.C. , M.J. Daly and L. Kruglyak (2000) Exact multipoint quantitative-trait linkage analysis in pedigrees by variance components. American Journal of Human Genetics 66: 1153-1157. (PDF)
Pratt, S.C. (2000) Gravity-independent orientation of honeycomb cells. Naturwissenschaften 87: 33-35. (PDF)
Pratt, S.C. (1999) Optimal timing of comb construction by honey bee colonies: a dynamic programming model and experimental tests. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 46: 30-42. (PDF)
Pratt, S.C. (1998) Condition-dependent timing of comb construction by honey bee colonies: How do workers know when to start building? Animal Behaviour 56: 603-610. (PDF)
Pratt, S.C. (1998) Decentralized control of drone comb construction in honey bee colonies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 42: 193-205. (PDF)
Pratt, S.C. , S. Kühnholz, T.D. Seeley and A. Weidenmüller (1996) Worker piping associated with foraging in undisturbed queenright colonies of honey bees. Apidologie 27: 13-20. (PDF)
Pratt, S.C. , P. Calabi and N.F. Carlin (1994) Division of labor in Ponera pennsylvannica (Formicidae: Ponerinae). Insectes Sociaux 41: 43-61. (PDF)
Pratt, S.C. (1994) Ecology and behavior of Gnamptogenys horni (Formicidae: Ponerinae). Insectes Sociaux 41: 255-262. (PDF)
Pratt, S.C. (1989) Recruitment and other communication behavior in the ponerine ant Ectatomma ruidum. Ethology 81: 313-331. (PDF)
