Feces production as a form of social immunity in an insect with facultative maternal care

Sibling Cooperation in Earwig Families Provides Insights into the Early Evolution of Social Life

(2014) Joachim Falk et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Maternal care provides antifungal protection to eggs in the European earwig

(2014) Stefan Boos et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Mother and offspring fitness in an insect with maternal care: phenotypic trade-offs between egg number, egg mass and egg care

(2014) Lisa K Koch et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Parental care influences social immunity in burying beetle larvae

(2014) CATHERINE E. REAVEY et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Paternal signature in kin recognition cues of a social insect: concealed in juveniles, revealed in adults

(2014) J. W. Y. Wong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Unifying external and internal immune defences

(2014) Oliver Otti et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Individual and social immunisation in insects

(2014) Leila Masri et al.   TRENDS IN IMMUNOLOGY

Antimicrobial secretions and social immunity in larval burying beetles, Nicrophorus vespilloides

(2013) Andres N. Arce et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The evolution of parental care in insects: the roles of ecology, life history and the social environment

(2013) JANINE W. Y. WONG et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Defensive microbial symbionts in Hymenoptera

(2013) Martin Kaltenpoth et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Inbreeding depression in an insect with maternal care: influences of family interactions, life stage and offspring sex

(2013) J. Meunier et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Multifunctional weaponry: The chemical defenses of earwigs

(2013) Tina Gasch et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Unearthing carrion beetles' microbiome: characterization of bacterial and fungal hindgut communities across the Silphidae

(2013) Martin Kaltenpoth et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Nest sanitation through defecation: antifungal properties of wood cockroach feces

(2013) Rebeca B. Rosengaus et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Extended disease resistance emerging from the faecal nest of a subterranean termite

(2013) T. Chouvenc et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Parental care trade-offs and the role of filial cannibalism in the maritime earwig, Anisolabis maritima

(2012) Julie S. Miller et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

When it is costly to have a caring mother: food limitation erases the benefits of parental care in earwigs

(2012) J. Meunier et al.   Biology Letters

Prenatal and postnatal parental effects on immunity and growth in ‘lactating’ pigeons

(2012) Lisa Jacquin et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Hindgut Innate Immunity and Regulation of Fecal Microbiota through Melanization in Insects

(2012) Qimiao Shao et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Parental antagonism and parent-offspring co-adaptation interact to shape family life

(2012) J. Meunier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

One clutch or two clutches? Fitness correlates of coexisting alternative female life-histories in the European earwig

(2011) Joël Meunier et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Diversity, prevalence and virulence of fungal entomopathogens in colonies of the ant Formica selysi

(2011) A. Reber et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

European earwig (Forficula auricularia) as a novel host for the entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema carpocapsae

(2011) A.K. Hodson et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Personal immunity versus social immunity

(2010) S. C. Cotter et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Fitness costs associated with mounting a social immune response

(2010) S. C. Cotter et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Diversity of gut microbiota increases with aging and starvation in the desert locust

(2009) Rod J. Dillon et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Sexual division of antibacterial resource defence in breeding burying beetles,Nicrophorus vespilloides

(2009) Sheena C. Cotter et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Actinobacteria as mutualists: general healthcare for insects?

(2009) Martin Kaltenpoth   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Maternal Food Regurgitation to Nymphs in Earwigs (Forficula auricularia)

(2008) Michael Staerkle et al.   ETHOLOGY

Antimicrobial strategies in burying beetles breeding on carrion

(2008) D. E. Rozen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA