Recognition in Ants: Social Origin Matters

Queen acceptance in a socially polymorphic ant

(2010) Joël Meunier et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Reproductive conflicts and egg discrimination in a socially polymorphic ant

(2010) Joël Meunier et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Mixed messages: fertility signaling interferes with nestmate recognition in the monogynous ant Camponotus floridanus

(2010) Dani Moore et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Apparent Dear-enemy Phenomenon and Environment-based Recognition Cues in the Ant Leptothorax nylanderi

(2010) Jürgen Heinze et al.   ETHOLOGY

Hydrocarbons detection levels in ants

(2010) K. Ichinose et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Is parasite pressure a driver of chemical cue diversity in ants?

(2010) S. J. Martin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Flexible colony-founding strategies in a socially polymorphic ant

(2009) Anabelle Reber et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A quantitative threshold for nest-mate recognition in a paper social wasp

(2009) A. Cini et al.   Biology Letters

Polygyny reduces rather than increases nestmate discrimination cue diversity in Formica exsecta ants

(2009) S. J. Martin et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

The determinants of queen size in a socially polymorphic ant

(2009) J. MEUNIER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Two independent mechanisms of egg recognition in worker Formica fusca ants

(2008) Heikki Helanterä et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Experimentally increased group diversity improves disease resistance in an ant species

(2008) Anabelle Reber et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Early learning of volatile chemical cues leads to interspecific recognition between two ant species

(2008) C. Errard et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Is the social parasite Vespa dybowskii using chemical transparency to get her eggs accepted?

(2008) Stephen J. Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Foreign ant queens are accepted but produce fewer offspring

(2008) Barbara Holzer et al.   OECOLOGIA