Task specialization influences nestmate recognition ability in ants

Workers ‘specialized’ on inactivity: Behavioral consistency of inactive workers and their role in task allocation

(2015) Daniel Charbonneau et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Distributed nestmate recognition in ants

(2015) F. Esponda et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Worker senescence and the sociobiology of aging in ants

(2014) Ysabel Milton Giraldo et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

‘Lazy’ in nature: ant colony time budgets show high ‘inactivity’ in the field as well as in the lab

(2014) D. Charbonneau et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Variation in nestmate recognition ability among polymorphic leaf-cutting ant workers

(2014) Janni Larsen et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Energetic cost of learning and memory can cause cognitive impairment in honeybees

(2013) S. Jaumann et al.   Biology Letters

Tracking Individuals Shows Spatial Fidelity Is a Key Regulator of Ant Social Organization

(2013) D. P. Mersch et al.   SCIENCE

Ant genomics sheds light on the molecular regulation of social organization

(2013) Romain Libbrecht et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Aggression is task dependent in the red harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus)

(2012) Shelby J. Sturgis et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Wingless virgin queens assume helper roles in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants

(2012) Volker Nehring et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Individual bumblebees vary in response to disturbance: a test of the defensive reserve hypothesis

(2012) J. M. Jandt et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Division of Labor in the Hyperdiverse Ant Genus Pheidole Is Associated with Distinct Subcaste- and Age-Related Patterns of Worker Brain Organization

(2012) Mario L. Muscedere et al.   PLoS One

Explosive Backpacks in Old Termite Workers

(2012) J. Sobotnik et al.   SCIENCE

Waste management in the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex echinatior: the role of worker size, age and plasticity

(2010) Sarah J. Waddington et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Visual experience and age affect synaptic organization in the mushroom bodies of the desert antCataglyphis fortis

(2010) Sara Mae Stieb et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Hydrocarbons detection levels in ants

(2010) K. Ichinose et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Selfish strategies and honest signalling: reproductive conflicts in ant queen associations

(2010) L. Holman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Spatial organization and division of labour in the bumblebee Bombus impatiens

(2009) Jennifer M. Jandt et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Weak specialization of workers inside a bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) nest

(2009) Jennifer M. Jandt et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

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

(2009) A. Cini et al.   Biology Letters

Are Bigger Brains Better?

(2009) Lars Chittka et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Hydrocarbons in the Ant Lasius niger: From the Cuticle to the Nest and Home Range Marking

(2009) Alain Lenoir et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Lifetime monogamy and the evolution of eusociality

(2009) J. J. Boomsma   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Plasticity of the Chemoreceptor Repertoire in Drosophila melanogaster

(2009) Shanshan Zhou et al.   PLoS Genetics

The mandible opening response: quantifying aggression elicited by chemical cues in ants

(2008) F. J. Guerrieri et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Division of labour among workers with different life expectancy in the ant Myrmica scabrinodis

(2007) Dawid Moroń et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR