Ant queens increase their reproductive efforts after pathogen infection

Transcriptomic response to injury sheds light on the physiological costs of reproduction in ant queens

(2016) Katharina von Wyschetzki et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Amphibians with infectious disease increase their reproductive effort: evidence for the terminal investment hypothesis

(2016) Laura A. Brannelly et al.   Open Biology

Immune Activation Generates Corticosterone-Mediated Terminal Reproductive Investment in a Wild Bird

(2015) E. Keith Bowers et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Terminal investment in the gustatory appeal of nuptial food gifts in crickets

(2015) K. R. Duffield et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Effects of immune challenge on the oviposition strategy of a noctuid moth

(2015) H. Staudacher et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Bacterial Infection Increases Reproductive Investment in Burying Beetles

(2015) Catherine Reavey et al.   Insects

Queen life-span and total reproductive success are positively associated in the ant Cardiocondyla cf. kagutsuchi

(2013) Jürgen Heinze et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Terminal Investment: Individual Reproduction of Ant Queens Increases with Age

(2012) Jürgen Heinze et al.   PLoS One

Social Transfer of Pathogenic Fungus Promotes Active Immunisation in Ant Colonies

(2012) Matthias Konrad et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Age-independent and age-dependent decreases in reproduction of females

(2011) Julien G. A. Martin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Social influence on age and reproduction: reduced lifespan and fecundity in multi-queen ant colonies

(2011) A. SCHREMPF et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Sick ants become unsociable

(2011) N. BOS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Moribund Ants Leave Their Nests to Die in Social Isolation

(2010) Jürgen Heinze et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Altruistic self-removal of health-compromised honey bee workers from their hive

(2010) O. RUEPPELL et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Rapid anti-pathogen response in ant societies relies on high genetic diversity

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

Metarhizium anisopliae enzymes and toxins

(2010) Augusto Schrank et al.   TOXICON

Cost of Reproduction, Resource Quality, and Terminal Investment in a Burying Beetle

(2009) J. Curtis Creighton et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Life expectancy and onset of foraging in the honeybee (Apis mellifera)

(2009) M. Woyciechowski et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Real-time quantitative PCR for analysis of candidate fungal biopesticides against malaria: Technique validation and first applications

(2009) Andrew S. Bell et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Deterioration, death and the evolution of reproductive restraint in late life

(2009) J. M. McNamara et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mating with Stressed Males Increases the Fitness of Ant Queens

(2008) Alexandra Schrempf et al.   PLoS One

Division of labour among workers with different life expectancy in the ant Myrmica scabrinodis

(2007) Dawid Moroń et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR