Distribution of Endosymbiotic Reproductive Manipulators Reflects Invasion Process and Not Reproductive System Polymorphism in the Little Fire Ant Wasmannia auropunctata

Where do adaptive shifts occur during invasion? A multidisciplinary approach to unravelling cold adaptation in a tropical ant species invading the Mediterranean area

(2012) Olivier Rey et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The ecoimmunology of invasive species

(2012) Thomas A. White et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Bacterial symbionts as mediators of ecologically important traits of insect hosts

(2011) HEIKE FELDHAAR   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Prevalence and genetic diversity of three bacterial endosymbionts (Wolbachia, Arsenophonus, and Rhizobiales) associated with the invasive yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes)

(2011) A. Sebastien et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Only helpful when required: a longevity cost of harbouring defensive symbionts

(2011) C. VORBURGER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Meiotic Recombination Dramatically Decreased in Thelytokous Queens of the Little Fire Ant and Their Sexually Produced Workers

(2011) O. Rey et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Sib mating without inbreeding in the longhorn crazy ant

(2011) M. Pearcy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Population genetics of beneficial heritable symbionts

(2011) John Jaenike   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The impact of endosymbionts on the evolution of host sex-determination mechanisms

(2011) Richard Cordaux et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Loss of microbial (pathogen) infections associated with recent invasions of the red imported fire ant Solenopsis invicta

(2010) Chin-Cheng Yang et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Defensive endosymbionts: a cryptic trophic level in community ecology

(2010) John Jaenike et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Worldwide invasion by the little fire ant: routes of introduction and eco-evolutionary pathways

(2010) Julien Foucaud et al.   Evolutionary Applications

The Ecology and Evolution of Microbes that Manipulate Host Reproduction

(2009) Jan Engelstädter et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Ecologically heterogeneous populations of the invasive antWasmannia auropunctatawithin its native and introduced ranges

(2009) JÉRÔME ORIVEL et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Thelytokous parthenogenesis, male clonality and genetic caste determination in the little fire ant: new evidence and insights from the lab

(2009) J Foucaud et al.   HEREDITY

Reproductive system, social organization, human disturbance and ecological dominance in native populations of the little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata

(2009) JULIEN FOUCAUD et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Immune Activation by Life-Shortening Wolbachia and Reduced Filarial Competence in Mosquitoes

(2009) Z. Kambris et al.   SCIENCE

Symbiont-mediated protection in insect hosts

(2009) Jeremy C. Brownlie et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

(2008) Nancy A. Moran et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Wolbachia endosymbiont is essential for egg hatching in a parthenogenetic arthropod

(2008) Martijn J. T. N. Timmermans et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

How many species are infected with Wolbachia? – a statistical analysis of current data

(2008) Kirsten Hilgenboecker et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

(2008) John H. Werren et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Wolbachia and Virus Protection in Insects

(2008) L. M. Hedges et al.   SCIENCE

Population dynamics of defensive symbionts in aphids

(2007) K. M Oliver et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Symbiont-mediated protection

(2007) E. R Haine   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES