To each their own! Nectar plasticity within a flower mediates distinct ecological interactions

Sweet solutions: nectar chemistry and quality

(2022) Susan W. Nicolson   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Discovery of octopamine and tyramine in nectar and their effects on bumblebee behavior

(2022) Felicity Muth et al.   iScience

A cell wall invertase controls nectar volume and sugar composition

(2021) Anzu Minami et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Nectar non-protein amino acids (NPAAs) do not change nectar palatability but enhance learning and memory in honey bees

(2021) Daniele Carlesso et al.   Scientific Reports

Allocation and metabolism of naturally occurring dietary amino acids in the Oriental hornet

(2021) Levona Bodner et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

CWIN-sugar transporter nexus is a key component for reproductive success

(2021) Yong-Ling Ruan   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Learning of a mimic odor combined with nectar nonsugar compounds enhances honeybee pollination of a commercial crop

(2021) M. Cecilia Estravis-Barcala et al.   Scientific Reports

Neuroactive nectar: compounds in nectar that interact with neurons

(2020) Julie A. Mustard   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

The trisaccharide melezitose impacts honey bees and their intestinal microbiota

(2020) Victoria Charlotte Seeburger et al.   PLoS One

Optimal Defense Theory in an ant–plant mutualism: Extrafloral nectar as an induced defence is maximized in the most valuable plant structures

(2020) Eduardo Soares Calixto et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Contrasting effects of herbivore damage type on extrafloral nectar production and ant attendance

(2020) Paola Pisetta Raupp et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Effects of Non-Protein Amino Acids in Nectar on Bee Survival and Behavior

(2019) Gherardo Bogo et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Pollination efficiency of cockroaches and other floral visitors of Clusia blattophila

(2019) B. Vlasáková et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

What Do Nectarivorous Bats Like? Nectar Composition in Bromeliaceae With Special Emphasis on Bat-Pollinated Species

(2019) Thomas Göttlinger et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Testing the Distraction Hypothesis: Do extrafloral nectaries reduce ant-pollinator conflict?

(2019) Nora Villamil et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Nectar quality affects ant aggressiveness and biotic defense provided to plants

(2019) Fábio T. Pacelhe et al.   BIOTROPICA

Nectar traits differ between pollination syndromes in Balsaminaceae

(2019) F Vandelook et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Diversity of nectar amino acids in the Fritillaria (Liliaceae) genus: ecological and evolutionary implications

(2019) Katarzyna Roguz et al.   Scientific Reports

Variation in the production of plant tissues bearing extrafloral nectaries explains temporal patterns of ant attendance in Amazonian understorey plants

(2019) Anselmo Nogueira et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Evolutionary ecology of nectar

(2018) Amy L Parachnowitsch et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Contrasting effects of yeasts and bacteria on floral nectar traits

(2018) Rachel L Vannette et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Nectar in Plant–Insect Mutualistic Relationships: From Food Reward to Partner Manipulation

(2018) Massimo Nepi et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Social wasps, crickets and cockroaches contribute to pollination of the holoparasitic plant Mitrastemon yamamotoi (Mitrastemonaceae) in southern Japan

(2018) K. Suetsugu   PLANT BIOLOGY

Nectar Replaced by Volatile Secretion: A Potential New Role for Nectarless Flowers in a Bee-Pollinated Plant Species

(2018) Elza Guimarães et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Effect of mutualistic and antagonistic bees on floral resources and pollination of a savanna shrub

(2017) Marília Monteiro Quinalha et al.   FLORA

Neuronal distribution of tyramine and the tyramine receptor AmTAR1 in the honeybee brain

(2017) Markus Thamm et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Review: Nectar biology: From molecules to ecosystems

(2017) Rahul Roy et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

The accumulation of β-aminobutyric acid is controlled by the plant’s immune system

(2017) Ivan Baccelli et al.   PLANTA

Nicotine in floral nectar pharmacologically influences bumblebee learning of floral features

(2017) D. Baracchi et al.   Scientific Reports

Determination of alkaloids in onion nectar by micellar electrokinetic chromatography

(2016) Verónica Carolina Soto et al.   ELECTROPHORESIS

Plant secondary metabolites in nectar: impacts on pollinators and ecological functions

(2016) Philip C. Stevenson et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Loss and gains in ant–plant interactions mediated by extrafloral nectar: fidelity, cheats, and lies

(2016) K. Del-Claro et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Extrafloral Nectar at the Plant-Insect Interface: A Spotlight on Chemical Ecology, Phenotypic Plasticity, and Food Webs

(2015) Martin Heil   Annual Review of Entomology

Caffeinated Forage Tricks Honeybees into Increasing Foraging and Recruitment Behaviors

(2015) Margaret J. Couvillon et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

fitdistrplus: AnRPackage for Fitting Distributions

(2015) Marie Laure Delignette-Muller et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Floral nectar production and nectary structure of a bee-pollinated shrub from Neotropical savanna

(2015) E. Guimarães et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

The Influence of Host Plant Extrafloral Nectaries on Multitrophic Interactions: An Experimental Investigation

(2015) Suzanne Koptur et al.   PLoS One

A New Generic Classification of Tribe Bignonieae (Bignoniaceae)1

(2014) Lúcia G. Lohmann et al.   ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN

Amino acid and carbohydrate tradeoffs by honey bee nectar foragers and their implications for plant–pollinator interactions

(2014) Harmen P. Hendriksma et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Phenotypic selection on nectar amino acid composition in the Lepidoptera pollinated orchid speciesGymnadenia conopsea

(2014) Pieter Gijbels et al.   OIKOS

Beyond nectar sweetness: the hidden ecological role of non-protein amino acids in nectar

(2013) Massimo Nepi   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Caffeine in Floral Nectar Enhances a Pollinator's Memory of Reward

(2013) G. A. Wright et al.   SCIENCE

Functional aspects of floral nectar secretion of Ananas ananassoides, an ornithophilous bromeliad from the Brazilian savanna

(2012) Juliana Marin Stahl et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Amino acids and protein profile in floral nectar: Much more than a simple reward

(2012) Massimo Nepi et al.   FLORA

Increased Host Investment in Extrafloral Nectar (EFN) Improves the Efficiency of a Mutualistic Defensive Service

(2012) Marcia González-Teuber et al.   PLoS One

Model-based SIR for dimension reduction

(2011) Luca Scrucca   COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS & DATA ANALYSIS

AD Model Builder: using automatic differentiation for statistical inference of highly parameterized complex nonlinear models

(2011) David A. Fournier et al.   OPTIMIZATION METHODS & SOFTWARE

Aphid-ant mutualism: how honeydew sugars influence the behaviour of ant scouts

(2010) CLAIRE DETRAIN et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

A Review of the Genus Distictella (Bignoniaceae)1,,2

(2009) Amy Pool   ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN

Pollination Biology of Jacaranda oxyphylla with an Emphasis on Staminode Function

(2008) Elza Guimarães et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

INVISIBLE FLORAL LARCENIES: MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES DEGRADE FLORAL NECTAR OF BUMBLE BEE-POLLINATED PLANTS

(2008) Carlos M. Herrera et al.   ECOLOGY