{"110471":{"#nid":"110471","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Process of Color-Coding Ants","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAndrew Quitmeyer\u003C\/strong\u003E, a Digital Media Ph.D. student and research assistant in the Bio-tracking Lab, has created a video that presents step-by-step instructions for color-coding ants within a colony. The color-coding of a single ant\u0026nbsp;is a painstaking process which involves the use of CO2 gas, a stereoscope, and a small paintbrush. The technique is useful for tracking the movement of one ant among thousands, and is in use at labs like Georgia Tech and other labs which study emergent behavior in groups of insects. \u003Cem\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/2012\/02\/17\/color-coding-ants\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EScientific American (Observations Blog)\u003C\/a\u003E - February 17,2012\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2012-02-20 11:01:16","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:26","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"work family interactions","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/2012\/02\/17\/color-coding-ants\/","dateline":{"date":"2012-02-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-02-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"24401","name":"Andrew Quitmeyer"},{"id":"124","name":"Digital Media"},{"id":"166933","name":"Scientific American"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}