Publications

Berman, S., Lindsey, Q., Sakar, M.S., Kumar, V. and Pratt, S.C. (2011) Experimental study and modeling of group retrieval in ants as an approach to collective transport in swarm robotic systems. Proceedings of the IEEE, in press.

 

Sasaki, T. and Pratt, S.C. (2011) Emergence of group rationality from irrational individuals. Behavioral Ecology, online advance access. (PDF)

 

Pratt, S.C. (2010) Nest site choice in social insects. In: M. D. Breed and J. Moore (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Vol. 2: 534-540. Amsterdam: Elsevier. (PDF)

 

Pratt, S.C. (2010) Collective intelligence. In: M. D. Breed and J. Moore (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Vol. 1: 303-309. Amsterdam: Elsevier. (PDF)

 

Nasonia Genome Working Group (2010) Functional and evolutionary insights from the genomes of three parasitoid Nasonia species. Science, 327: 343-348.

 

Edwards, S.C. and Pratt, S.C. (2009) Rationality in collective decision-making by ants. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B, 276: 3655-3661. (PDF)

 

Sumpter, D.J.T. and Pratt, S.C. (2009) Quorum responses and consensus decision-making. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, 364: 743-753. (PDF)

 

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, B 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)