Genetic diversity in tempo determines foraging range in ants

The foraging behavior of a colony arises from the activity of individual workers.  In this paper we explore the phenotypic differences among the workers of the western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis in order to understand the temporal pattern of foraging in colonies.  We know that the genetic diversity of colonies influences the temporal pattern of foraging: with greater genetic diversity colonies begin foraging earlier and forage for greater duration.  
We test two mechanisms to account for this pattern.  The Temperature Hypothesis predicts that early foragers will be more active at lower temperatures than late foragers and will be the first workers to initiate foraging.  Late foragers will be more active at high temperatures.  The Tempo Hypothesis predicts that early foragers will be the first to forage because they have the higher overall tempo of activity at all temperatures.  
We measure the movement activity of samples of early and late foragers from 32 colonies over a r..., The data were collected from the movement activity of early and late foragers from naturally occurring colonies of Pogonomyrmex occidentalis.  Early workers were the first workers to begin foraging in the morning while late workers were the last to forage in the morning.  The movement activity was measured from video image differencing over a range of temperatures.  We report the movement for ten minute periods for individual workers at each temperature from  9-37̊C.  We also report the patriline identity for each worker within each colony., , # Data from: Genetic diversity in tempo determines foraging range in ants

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.d2547d88b](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.d2547d88b)

These three data files are for the paper: Genetic diversity in tempo determines foraging range in ants.

The first file is ‘activity data.txt’

The 7 columns are:

WorkerID                              This is the unique worker identifier for all data. The numbers refer to the colony that the worker belongs to, an E

                                                or L that identifies the worker as either an early or late forager and the last pair of numbers that indicate the

                                                worker identity within the colony

Temp                                     The temperature at which the activity data were collected

Mean                                     The mean activity per minute at that temperature (degrees C)

Worker                                  The designation of the worker id...