Ant physiology has been fashioned by 100 million years of social evolution. Ants perform many sophisticated social and collective behaviors yet possess nervous systems similar in schematic and scale to that of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, a popular solitary model organism. Ants are thus attractive complementary subjects to investigate adaptations pertaining to complex social behaviors that are absent in flies. Despite research interest in ant behavior and the neurobiological foundations of sociality more broadly, our understanding of the ant nervous system is incomplete. Recent technical advances have enabled cutting-edge investigations of the nervous system in a fashion that is less dependent on model choice, opening the door for mechanistic social insect neuroscience. In this review, we revisit important aspects of what is known about the ant nervous system and behavior, and we look forward to how functional circuit neuroscience in ants will help us understand what distinguishes solitary animals from highly social ones.

Dominic D. Frank

Daniel J.C. Kronauer

Annual Review of Neuroscience

自 1978 年出版的《神经科学年度回顾》涵盖了整个神经科学领域的重大发展，包括分子和细胞神经科学、神经遗传学、发育、可塑性和修复、系统神经科学、认知神经科学、行为和疾病的神经生物学，以及偶尔回顾一下神经科学和伦理学的历史。

The Annual Review of Neuroscience, published since 1978, covers significant developments across the field of neuroscience, including molecular and cellular neuroscience, neurogenetics, development, plasticity and repair, systems neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, the neurobiology of behavior and disease, and occasionally reviews the history of neuroscience and ethics.

《Annual Review of Neuroscience》自1978年出版，涵盖了神经科学领域的重大进展，包括分子和细胞神经科学、神经遗传学、发育、可塑性与修复、系统神经科学、认知神经科学、行为与疾病的神经生物学，以及偶尔回顾神经科学与伦理学的历史。

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