Function of the Dufour’s gland in solitary and social Hymenoptera

Dufour’s gland possible role in the evolution of sting morphology and function in hover wasps (Hymenoptera Stenogastrinae)

(2012) Angelo Fortunato et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Road to Royalty - Transition of Potential Queen to Queen in the Primitively Eusocial Wasp Ropalidia marginata

(2012) Aniruddha Mitra et al.   ETHOLOGY

Hydrocarbon Signatures of Egg Maternity, Caste Membership and Reproductive Status in the Common Wasp

(2012) W. Bonckaert et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Queen signal should be honest to be involved in maintenance of eusociality: chemical correlates of fertility in Ropalidia marginata

(2011) A. Mitra et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Effects of Instrumental Insemination and Insemination Quantity on Dufour’s Gland Chemical Profiles and Vitellogenin Expression in Honey Bee Queens (Apis mellifera)

(2011) Freddie-Jeanne Richard et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Evolution of the hymenopteran megaradiation

(2011) John Heraty et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Early Evolution of Apocrita (Insecta, Hymenoptera) as Indicated by New Findings in the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Northeast China

(2010) Alexandr P. RASNTTSYN et al.   ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA-ENGLISH EDITION

The appeasement effect of sterility signaling in dominance contests among Bombus terrestris workers

(2010) Etya Amsalem et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Kin discriminators in the eusocial sweat bee Lasioglossum malachurum: the reliability of cuticular and Dufour’s gland odours

(2010) Antonella Soro et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

The origins of species richness in the Hymenoptera: insights from a family-level supertree

(2010) Robert B Davis et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Colony Founding by Queens of the Obligatory Slave-making Ant, Polyergus breviceps: The Role of the Dufour's Gland1

(2010) Howard Topoff et al.   ETHOLOGY

Chemical communication in Ropalidia marginata: Dufour's gland contains queen signal that is perceived across colonies and does not contain colony signal

(2010) Aniruddha Mitra et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Can Dufour’s gland compounds honestly signal fertility in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata?

(2010) Aniruddha Mitra et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Comprehensive phylogeny of apid bees reveals the evolutionary origins and antiquity of cleptoparasitism

(2010) S. Cardinal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reproductive competition in the bumble-bee Bombus terrestris: do workers advertise sterility?

(2009) E. Amsalem et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Oogenesis ofDiadegma semiclausum(Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) and its associated polydnavirus

(2008) Fang Huang et al.   MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE

Aggressive reproductive competition among hopelessly queenless honeybee workers triggered by pheromone signaling

(2008) O. Malka et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Unusual structural and chemical characteristics of the Dufour gland in the ant Meranoplus diversus

(2008) JOHAN BILLEN et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Trail pheromones of ants

(2008) E. DAVID MORGAN   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY