Figure 2.

(A) Survival curves of the proportion of the naïve ants (that still had not performed any trophallactic events) in the experimental networks (full black line = mean from experiments, grey area = standard deviation, N = 5 experiments) and in the RP reference networks (temporal randomisation, dashed black line, mean from N = 1000 for each experiment). Dotted black line = exponential fitting. (B) Example from one experiment: empirical (vertical dotted line) and theoretical distributions (grey bar, from 1000 RP reference networks) of the T₅₀ for the half of the population that performed at least one trophallactic exchange, ZT: Z = −4.51, p < 0.0001. See Fig. S4 for details of the other experiments.