Replication Data for : \"Recruitment boosts participation and transfers route information during collective migration in ants\"

Collective behaviors are widespread across the animal kingdom and often crucial to the persistence of social groups. These behaviors emerge from local interactions among individuals, leading to coordinated actions at the group level. When carrying out collective tasks, task participants guide naïve group members to a valuable resource through recruitment behaviours. Recruitment can improve group efficiency if recruited individuals transfer information about completing the task to others (hereafter referred to as information transfer). Task participants can activate others to join the task through recruitment behaviors (which we term activation). In this study, we investigated these two processes using the rock ant Temnothorax rugatulus as a model system. We focused on two recruitment behaviors–social carrying and reverse tandem running– used during nest emigration. To test for information transfer, we focused on whether followers learn specific routes from leaders. This repository contains the data used to analyze if followers learn route information from leaders. Each route csv file corresponds to one route, with two columns which denote x-y co-ordinates for that route. All csvs contain route information except the files that start with \"key_*\" which contain information about how the routes are distributed across colonies for each recruitment behaviour tested. The route file names follow the below notation - Carrying recruitment route: carry_*.csv Carrying follower route: carry_follower_*.csv RTR homebound route: rtr_homebound_*.csv RTR homebound follower route: rtr_follower_home_*.csv RTR target bound route: rtr_targetbound_*.csv RTR target bound follower route: rtr_follower_target_*.csv Each recruitment and follower route are paired, and numbered indices denote which routes are paired.集体行为在动物界广泛存在，且往往对社会群体的存续至关重要。这类行为源自个体间的局部互动，最终催生群体层面的协同行动。在执行集体任务时，任务参与者会通过招募行为（recruitment behaviours）引导无经验的群体成员前往具有价值的资源位点。若被招募的个体能够将任务完成相关的信息传递给其他成员（以下简称信息传递），则招募行为可提升群体作业效率。任务参与者还可通过招募行为（我们将其定义为激活行为），动员其他个体加入任务。 本研究以石蚁（Temnothorax rugatulus）作为模式生物，对上述两类过程展开探究。我们聚焦于巢群迁移过程中出现的两类招募行为：社会搬运与反向串联行进（reverse tandem running，以下简称RTR）。为验证信息传递效应，我们重点考察跟随者是否能够从领导者处习得特定行进路线。 本数据集仓库包含用于分析跟随者是否从领导者处习得路线信息的全部实验数据。每条路线对应的CSV文件对应一条行进路线，文件包含两列数据，分别代表该路线的X-Y坐标。除名称以"key_*"开头的文件外，所有CSV文件均存储路线信息；此类以key_开头的文件用于记录各测试招募行为下，路线在不同蚁群间的分配情况。 路线文件的命名遵循以下规则： - 社会搬运招募路线：carry_*.csv - 社会搬运跟随者路线：carry_follower_*.csv - RTR归巢路线：rtr_homebound_*.csv - RTR归巢跟随者路线：rtr_follower_home_*.csv - RTR朝向目标位点路线：rtr_targetbound_*.csv - RTR朝向目标位点跟随者路线：rtr_follower_target_*.csv 每一条招募者路线均与对应的跟随者路线配对，编号索引用于标识配对的路线组。