Fig. 6

Comparison of forwards versus reverse-time transmission. a Example contact sequence covering a five minute pre- and post-retinue period. Individual bees occupy fixed positions on the y-axis, and physical encounters between pairs of bees are indicated by curved links. The queen is indicated in red. b Growth curves obtained from running the transmission simulation on the five-minute post-retinue contacts (‘forward’), and on the time-reversed five minute pre-retinue contacts (‘reverse’). c Relative differences between the audience size growth curves for the original post-retinue contact sequence versus the time-reversed pre-retinue contacts. Coloured lines indicate individual colony means. The black line and the shaded area indicates the grand mean & standard error, towards which each colony contribute a single value (n=10)