Is phenotypic plasticity a key mechanism for responding to thermal stress in ants?

Environmental influence on the phenotype of ant workers revealed by common garden experiment

(2016) Jessica Purcell et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Regulation of worker egg laying by larvae in a fission-performing ant

(2015) Irene Villalta et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

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

Heat shock proteins expression during thermal risk exposure in the temperate xerothermic ant Formica cinerea

(2015) Piotr Ślipiński et al.   SOCIOBIOLOGY

Climate change, adaptation, and phenotypic plasticity: the problem and the evidence

(2014) Juha Merilä et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Behaviour-mediated group size effect constrains reproductive decisions in a social insect

(2012) Camille Ruel et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The temperature-size rule emerges from ontogenetic differences between growth and development rates

(2012) Jack Forster et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Substrate Temperature Constrains Recruitment and Trail Following Behavior in Ants

(2012) Louise van Oudenhove et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

Leg allometry in ants: Extreme long-leggedness in thermophilic species

(2011) Stefan Sommer et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Solar Elevation Triggers Foraging Activity in a Thermophilic Ant

(2011) Fernando Amor et al.   ETHOLOGY

Different effects of temperature on foraging activity schedules in sympatric Myrmecia ants

(2011) P. Jayatilaka et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Climate change and evolutionary adaptation

(2011) Ary A. Hoffmann et al.   NATURE

Temperature limits trail following behaviour through pheromone decay in ants

(2011) Louise van Oudenhove et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming

(2011) I.-C. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Shaking a leg and hot to trot: the effects of body size and temperature on running speed in ants

(2010) ALLEN H. HURLBERT et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Intraspecific competition affects population size and resource allocation in an ant dispersing by colony fission

(2010) Raphaël Boulay et al.   ECOLOGY

The physiology of climate change: how potentials for acclimatization and genetic adaptation will determine 'winners' and 'losers'

(2010) G. N. Somero   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Effect of Temperature on the Development and Survival of the Argentine Ant,Linepithema humile

(2010) Silvia Abril et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Species interactions and thermal constraints on ant community structure

(2010) Sarah E. Wittman et al.   OIKOS

Preimaginal and Adult Experience Modulates the Thermal Response Behavior of Ants

(2009) Anja Weidenmüller et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Brood development into sexual females depends on the presence of a queen but not on temperature in an ant dispersing by colony fission,Aphaenogaster senilis

(2009) RAPHAËL BOULAY et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Adapt or disperse: understanding species persistence in a changing world

(2009) MATTY P. BERG et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Worker thermal tolerance in the thermophilic ant Cataglyphis cursor (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

(2009) J. Clémencet et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Small-scale indirect effects determine the outcome of a tripartite plant–disperser–granivore interaction

(2009) Raphaël Boulay et al.   OECOLOGIA