Effect of Carbohydrate Supplementation on Investment into Offspring Number, Size, and Condition in a Social Insect

Plant Resources and Colony Growth in an Invasive Ant: The Importance of Honeydew-Producing Hemiptera in Carbohydrate Transfer Across Trophic Levels

(2015) Ken R. Helms et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Aphid honeydew provides a nutritionally balanced resource for incipient Argentine ant mutualists

(2014) Jonathan Z. Shik et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A carbohydrate-rich diet increases social immunity in ants

(2014) A. D. Kay et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Ant, Aphaenogaster picea, Benefits From Plant Elaiosomes When Insect Prey is Scarce

(2013) Robert E. Clark et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Towards a nutritional ecology of invasive establishment: aphid mutualists provide better fuel for incipient Argentine ant colonies than insect prey

(2012) Jonathan Z. Shik et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Assembling an ant community: species functional traits reflect environmental filtering

(2012) Philipp T. Wiescher et al.   OECOLOGIA

Introduced fire ants can exclude native ants from critical mutualist-provided resources

(2012) Shawn M. Wilder et al.   OECOLOGIA

The maximum rate of mammal evolution

(2012) A. R. Evans et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ant workers die young and colonies collapse when fed a high-protein diet

(2012) A. Dussutour et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A seasonal natural history of the ant, Odontomachus brunneus

(2011) L. M. Hart et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Intercontinental differences in resource use reveal the importance of mutualisms in fire ant invasions

(2011) S. M. Wilder et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Newest Synthesis: Understanding the Interplay of Evolutionary and Ecological Dynamics

(2011) T. W. Schoener   SCIENCE

The metabolic costs of building ant colonies from variably sized subunits

(2010) Jonathan Z. Shik   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Plant-based food resources, trophic interactions among alien species, and the abundance of an invasive ant

(2010) Ken R. Helms et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

The use of simulation modeling to evaluate the mechanisms responsible for the nutritional benefits of food-for-protection mutualisms

(2010) Shawn M. Wilder et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Morphological patterns and community organization in leaf-litter ant assemblages

(2010) Rogério R. Silva et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Nutrition and interference competition have interactive effects on the behavior and performance of Argentine ants

(2010) Adam D. Kay et al.   ECOLOGY

Macronutrient content of plant-based food affects growth of a carnivorous arthropod

(2010) Shawn M. Wilder et al.   ECOLOGY

Worker Allometry in Relation to Colony Size and Social form in the Fire AntSolenopsis invicta

(2010) Matheus B. Araujo et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Communal Nutrition in Ants

(2009) Audrey Dussutour et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The trophic ecology of castes in harvester ant colonies

(2009) Chris R. Smith et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

How ecology shapes caste evolution: linking resource use, morphology, performance and fitness in a superorganism

(2009) S. POWELL   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Carbohydrate supply limits invasion of natural communities by Argentine ants

(2009) Alexei D. Rowles et al.   OECOLOGIA

Carbohydrate regulation in relation to colony growth in ants

(2008) A. Dussutour et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY