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

Repellent effect on host Formica workers of queen Dufour's gland secretion of the obligatory social parasite ant, Polyergus samurai (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

(2009) Yousuke Tsuneoka et al.   APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY

Population genetics of the black ant Formica lemani (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

(2009) PERTTU SEPPÄ et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

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

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

A Review of Ant Cuticular Hydrocarbons

(2009) Stephen Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Ants recognize foes and not friends

(2009) F. J. Guerrieri et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Two independent mechanisms of egg recognition in worker Formica fusca ants

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

Evolution of species-specific cuticular hydrocarbon patterns in Formica ants

(2008) STEPHEN J. MARTIN et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Colony-specific Hydrocarbons Identify Nest Mates in Two Species of Formica Ant

(2008) Stephen J. Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Egg marking in the facultatively queenless ant Gnamptogenys striatula: The source and mechanism

(2008) E. Lommelen et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

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

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

Chemical basis of nest-mate discrimination in the ant Formica exsecta

(2008) S. J Martin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Mosaic of Chemical Coevolution in a Large Blue Butterfly

(2008) D. R. Nash et al.   SCIENCE