Not dear neighbours: Antennation and jerking, but not aggression, correlate with genetic relatedness and spatial distance in the ant Lasius niger

Ants combine object affordance with latent learning to make efficient foraging decisions

(2023) Laure-Anne Poissonnier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Out of sight, out of mind: dear enemy effect in the rufous hornero, Furnarius rufus

(2022) Paulo S. Amorim et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Bundling and segregation affect pheromone deposition, but not choice, in an ant

(2022) Massimo De Agrò et al.   eLife

Discrimination of conspecifics from heterospecifics in a hybrid zone: Behavioral and chemical cues in ants

(2021) Marion Cordonnier et al.   Insect Science

The dear enemy effect drives conspecific aggressiveness in an Azteca-Cecropia system

(2021) Gabriela Zorzal et al.   Scientific Reports

Stranger danger: A meta-analysis of the dear enemy hypothesis

(2021) Jo A. Werba et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Ants resort to heuristics when facing relational-learning tasks they cannot solve

(2020) F. B. Oberhauser et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Friend or foe? Differential aggression towards neighbors and strangers in the ant Liometopum microcephalum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

(2020) Kriszta‐Kincső Keresztes et al.   ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Towards more intimacy: moderate elevation of temperature drives increases in foraging and mutualistic interactions between Lasius niger and Aphis fabae

(2020) Solène Blanchard et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

The Native Ant Lasius niger Can Limit the Access to Resources of the Invasive Argentine Ant

(2020) Marion Cordonnier et al.   Animals

Testing the dear enemy relationship in fiddler crabs: Is there a difference between fighting conspecific and heterospecific opponents?

(2019) Bruno R. Fogo et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Dominance-related contributions to collective territory defence are adjusted according to the threat

(2019) Jenny E. York et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Dear enemies or nasty neighbors? Causes and consequences of variation in the responses of group-living species to territorial intrusions

(2018) Charlotte Christensen et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Effects of genetic relatedness, spatial distance, and context on intraspecifi c aggression in the red wood ant Formica pratensis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

(2018)   TURKISH JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Intercolony distance predicts the decision to rescue or attack conspecifics in weaver ants

(2018) F. M. K. Uy et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Feeding behavior and social interactions of the Argentine ant Linepithema humile change with sucrose concentration

(2016) F.J. Sola et al.   BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Relationships among taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic ant diversity across the biogeographic regions of Europe

(2016) Xavier Arnan et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Interspecific variation in neighbour-stranger discrimination in ants of theNeoponera apicaliscomplex

(2016) BORIS YAGOUND et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Visualizing and interacting with large-volume biodiversity data using client–server web-mapping applications: The design and implementation of antmaps.org

(2016) Julia Janicki et al.   Ecological Informatics

Private information alone can trigger trapping of ant colonies in local feeding optima

(2016) Tomer J. Czaczkes et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

fitdistrplus: AnRPackage for Fitting Distributions

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

The Rules of Aggression: How Genetic, Chemical and Spatial Factors Affect Intercolony Fights in a Dominant Species, the Mediterranean Acrobat Ant Crematogaster scutellaris

(2015) Filippo Frizzi et al.   PLoS One

Conserved Microsatellites in Ants Enable Population Genetic and Colony Pedigree Studies across a Wide Range of Species

(2014) Ian A. Butler et al.   PLoS One

Extra-Pair Mating and Evolution of Cooperative Neighbourhoods

(2014) Sigrunn Eliassen et al.   PLoS One

Long-term familiarity promotes joining in neighbour nest defence

(2012) A. M. Grabowska-Zhang et al.   Biology Letters

Aphid Alarm Pheromone as a Cue for Ants to Locate Aphid Partners

(2012) François J. Verheggen et al.   PLoS One

Conspecific Ant Aggression is Correlated with Chemical Distance, but not with Genetic or Spatial Distance

(2011) Stephen J. Martin et al.   BEHAVIOR GENETICS

Responses to intruder scents in the cooperatively breeding meerkat: sex and social status differences and temporal variation

(2011) Rafael Mares et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Dear enemy phenomenon in the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex lobicornis: behavioral and genetic evidence

(2010) Romina D. Dimarco et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Interspecific assistance: fiddler crabs help heterospecific neighbours in territory defence

(2010) I. Booksmythe et al.   Biology Letters

Weaver ants Oecophylla smaragdina encounter nasty neighbors rather than dear enemies

(2010) Philip S. Newey et al.   ECOLOGY

Apparent Dear-enemy Phenomenon and Environment-based Recognition Cues in the Ant Leptothorax nylanderi

(2010) Jürgen Heinze et al.   ETHOLOGY

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

(2010) CLAIRE DETRAIN et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

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

To fight or not to fight: context-dependent interspecific aggression in competing ants

(2008) Colby J. Tanner et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Seasonal nestmate recognition in the polydomous ant Plagiolepis pygmaea

(2007) Nicolas Thurin et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Differential responses to territory intrusions in cooperatively breeding fish

(2007) Julie K. Desjardins et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR