Inbreeding and the evolution of sociality in arthropods

Does monogeny enable gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) to regulate their sex ratio?

(2014) Seyed Mohammad TABADKANI et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Assortative mating for relatedness in a large naturally occurring population of Drosophila melanogaster

(2012) S. P. ROBINSON et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

An equal sex ratio followed by differential sex mortality causes overestimation of females in gall midges: no evidence for sex ratio regulation

(2012) Seyed Mohammad Tabadkani et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Inbreeding and selection on sex ratio in the bark beetle Xylosandrus germanus

(2011) Laurent Keller et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Inbreeding Depression Is Purged in the Invasive Insect Harmonia axyridis

(2011) Benoît Facon et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Monogeny, a neglected mechanism of inbreeding avoidance in small populations of gall midges

(2011) Seyed Mohammad Tabadkani et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Mate choice promotes inbreeding avoidance in the two-spotted spider mite

(2011) N. S. H. Tien et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY

Kin selection and eusociality

(2011) Joan E. Strassmann et al.   NATURE

Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

(2011) Patrick Abbot et al.   NATURE

Positive feedback and alternative stable states in inbreeding, cooperation, sex roles and other evolutionary processes

(2011) J. Lehtonen et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

German cockroach males maximize their inclusive fitness by avoiding mating with kin

(2010) Mathieu Lihoreau et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Nestmateship and body size do not influence mate choice in males and females: A laboratory study of a primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata

(2010) M.C. Shilpa et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Males of the orb-web spider Argiope bruennichi sacrifice themselves to unrelated females

(2010) K. W. Welke et al.   Biology Letters

MATE CHOICE FOR OPTIMAL (K)INBREEDING

(2010) Mikael Puurtinen   EVOLUTION

Sexual interactions and nestmate recognition in invasive populations of Polistes dominulus wasps

(2010) A. E. Liebert et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Genomics and the future of conservation genetics

(2010) Fred W. Allendorf et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Environment-dependent inbreeding depression: its ecological and evolutionary significance

(2010) Pierre-Olivier Cheptou et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Male moths reduce sperm investment in relatives

(2009) Zenobia Lewis et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A polyandrous female moth discriminates against previous mates to gain genetic diversity

(2009) Jin Xu et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Kin recognition and inbreeding reluctance in bumblebees

(2009) Penelope R. Whitehorn et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Lack of behavioural evidence for kin avoidance in mate choice in a hymenopteran parasitoid (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

(2009) D. Bourdais et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Sib-mating in the antPlagiolepis pygmaea: adaptative inbreeding?

(2009) N. THURIN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Promiscuous females avoid inbreeding by controlling sperm storage

(2009) AMANDA BRETMAN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The genetics of inbreeding depression

(2009) Deborah Charlesworth et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

No Need to Discriminate? Reproductive Diploid Males in a Parasitoid with Complementary Sex Determination

(2009) Jan Elias et al.   PLoS One

Gene flow is maintained by polyandry and male dispersal in the army ant Eciton burchellii

(2009) Rodolfo Jaffé et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Research on inbreeding in the ‘omic’ era

(2009) Torsten N. Kristensen et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Kin recognition via cuticular hydrocarbons shapes cockroach social life

(2008) Mathieu Lihoreau et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The effects of age and relatedness on mating patterns in thornbug treehoppers: inbreeding avoidance or inbreeding tolerance?

(2008) Paul A. De Luca et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Mutual Mate Choice: When it Pays Both Sexes to Avoid Inbreeding

(2008) Mathieu Lihoreau et al.   PLoS One

Ancestral Monogamy Shows Kin Selection Is Key to the Evolution of Eusociality

(2008) W. O. H. Hughes et al.   SCIENCE

No evidence that female bruchid beetles, Callosobruchus maculatus , use remating to reduce costs of inbreeding

(2007) Martin Edvardsson et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR