Competition Drives Group Formation and Reduces Within Nest Relatedness in a Facultatively Social Carpenter Bee

Social consequences of energetically costly nest construction in a facultatively social bee

(2021) Madeleine M. Ostwald et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

To leave or to stay: direct fitness through natural nest foundation in a primitively eusocial wasp

(2019) A. Brahma et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Social trait definitions influence evolutionary inferences: a phylogenetic approach to improving social terminology for bees

(2019) Miriam H Richards   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Predictors of nest growth: diminishing returns for subordinates in the paper wasp Polistes dominula

(2018) Lena Grinsted et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Investigating queen influence on worker behaviour using comparisons of queenless and queenright workers

(2018) D. N. Awde et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Ecological drivers and reproductive consequences of non-kin cooperation by ant queens

(2018) Brian R. Haney et al.   OECOLOGIA

Linear dominance hierarchies and conditional reproductive strategies in a facultatively social carpenter bee

(2018) J. L. Vickruck et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Nesting habits influence population genetic structure of a bee living in anthropogenic disturbance

(2017) J. L. Vickruck et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ergonomic skew and reproductive queuing based on social and seasonal variation in foraging activity of eastern carpenter bees (Xylocopa virginica)

(2015) M.H. Richards et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Development of sixteen novel microsatellite markers for the eastern carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica (Hymenoptera: Apidae), through paired-end Illumina sequencing

(2014) Jess L. Vickruck   Conservation Genetics Resources

Multifemale nests and social behavior in Euglossa melanotricha (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Euglossini)

(2012) Fabio Nascimento et al.   JOURNAL OF HYMENOPTERA RESEARCH

Climate limitations on the distribution and phenology of a large carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

(2011) Dimitri A. Skandalis et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Colony Social Organisation and Alternative Social Strategies in the Eastern Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa virginica

(2011) Miriam H. Richards   JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR

Nest Inheritance Is the Missing Source of Direct Fitness in a Primitively Eusocial Insect

(2011) E. Leadbeater et al.   SCIENCE

Knowing who's who: nestmate recognition in the facultatively social carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica

(2010) Marianne Peso et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The evolution of eusociality in allodapine bees: workers began by waiting

(2010) M. P. Schwarz et al.   Biology Letters

Not all who wander are lost: nest fidelity in Xylocopa virginica examined by mark recapture

(2010) M. Peso et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Unrelated Helpers in a Primitively Eusocial Wasp: Is Helping Tailored Towards Direct Fitness?

(2010) Ellouise Leadbeater et al.   PLoS One

Kin competition and the evolution of cooperation

(2009) Thomas G. Platt et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

KIN SELECTION, LOCAL COMPETITION, AND REPRODUCTIVE SKEW

(2008) Rufus A. Johnstone   EVOLUTION