Cryptic “royal” subfamilies in honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies

Honey bees consider larval nutritional status rather than genetic relatedness when selecting larvae for emergency queen rearing

(2018) Ramesh R. Sagili et al.   Scientific Reports

Context dependent bias in honeybee queen selection: swarm versus emergency queens

(2016) H. Michael G. Lattorff et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Honey bee sociometry: tracking honey bee colonies and their nest contents from colony founding until death

(2016) M. L. Smith et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Honey bee colonies regulate queen reproductive traits by controlling which queens survive to adulthood

(2015) D. R. Tarpy et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Mating Frequencies of Honey Bee Queens (Apis mellifera L.) in a Population of Feral Colonies in the Northeastern United States

(2015) David R. Tarpy et al.   PLoS One

Honey Bee Colonies Headed by Hyperpolyandrous Queens Have Improved Brood Rearing Efficiency and Lower Infestation Rates of Parasitic Varroa Mites

(2015) Keith S. Delaplane et al.   PLoS One

Thelytoky in the honey bee

(2014) Frances Goudie et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Standard methods for molecular research inApis mellifera

(2013) Jay D Evans et al.   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

Promiscuous Honey Bee Queens Increase Colony Productivity by Suppressing Worker Selfishness

(2012) Heather R. Mattila et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Does Patriline Composition Change over a Honey Bee Queen’s Lifetime?

(2012) Robert Brodschneider et al.   Insects

The physical, insemination, and reproductive quality of honey bee queens (Apis mellifera L.)

(2010) Deborah A. Delaney et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Promiscuous honeybee queens generate colonies with a critical minority of waggle-dancing foragers

(2010) Heather R. Mattila et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Does a polyandrous honeybee queen improve through patriline diversity the activity of her colony’s scouting foragers?

(2010) Heather R. Mattila et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

E-β-Ocimene, a Volatile Brood Pheromone Involved in Social Regulation in the Honey Bee Colony (Apis mellifera)

(2010) Alban Maisonnasse et al.   PLoS One

No intracolonial nepotism during colony fissioning in honey bees

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

Genetic royal cheats in leaf-cutting ant societies

(2008) William O. H. Hughes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cheater genotypes in the parthenogenetic ant Pristomyrmex punctatus

(2008) S. Dobata et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

When Workers Disunite: Intraspecific Parasitism by Eusocial Bees

(2007) Madeleine Beekman et al.   Annual Review of Entomology