Testing optimal defence theory in a social insect: Increased risk is correlated with increased venom investment

Defense in Social Insects: Diversity, Division of Labor, and Evolution

(2022) Patrick Abbot   Annual Review of Entomology

Collective decision‐making when quantity is more important than quality: Lessons from a kidnapping social parasite

(2021) Julie S. Miller   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Not too big, not too small: raids at moderately sized hosts lead to optimal outcomes for a slave-making ant

(2020) Julie S. Miller   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

The Effect of Brood Quantity on Nest Site Choice in the Temnothorax rugatulus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

(2020) Takao Sasaki et al.   ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Destructive disinfection of infected brood prevents systemic disease spread in ant colonies

(2018) Christopher D Pull et al.   eLife

Increased investment in the defence of high-value offspring by a superorganism

(2018) Kevin L. Haight   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Wood ants produce a potent antimicrobial agent by applying formic acid on tree-collected resin

(2017) Timothée Brütsch et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The Biochemical Toxin Arsenal from Ant Venoms

(2016) Axel Touchard et al.   Toxins

Specialization and group size: brain and behavioural correlates of colony size in ants lacking morphological castes

(2015) S. Amador-Vargas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sanitizing the fortress: protection of ant brood and nest material by worker antibiotics

(2013) C. Tranter et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Ants Disinfect Fungus-Exposed Brood by Oral Uptake and Spread of Their Poison

(2012) Simon Tragust et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Patterns of venom production and temporal polyethism in workers of Jerdon’s jumping ant, Harpegnathos saltator

(2012) Kevin L. Haight   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Two pathways ensuring social harmony

(2012) Matthias Konrad et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

The venom optimization hypothesis revisited

(2012) David Morgenstern et al.   TOXICON

Division of labor increases with colony size in the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex californicus

(2011) C. Tate Holbrook et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Productivity increases with variation in aggression among group members in Temnothorax ants

(2011) Andreas P. Modlmeier et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Queen pheromones in Temnothorax ants: control or honest signal?

(2011) Elisabeth Brunner et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Identification of a pheromone regulating caste differentiation in termites

(2010) K. Matsuura et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Identification of an ant queen pheromone regulating worker sterility

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

Locally adapted social parasite affects density, social structure, and life history of its ant hosts

(2009) Susanne Foitzik et al.   ECOLOGY

Self-recognition affects plant communication and defense

(2009) Richard Karban et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS