Identification of a queen and king recognition pheromone in the subterranean termiteReticulitermes flavipes

Post-mating shift towards longer-chain cuticular hydrocarbons drastically reduces female attractiveness to males in a digger wasp

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Highly specific responses to queen pheromone in three Lasius ant species

(2016) Luke Holman et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

A social insect fertility signal is dependent on chemical context

(2015) A. A. Smith et al.   Biology Letters

Endocrine control of cuticular hydrocarbon profiles during worker-to-soldier differentiation in the termite Reticulitermes flavipes

(2014) E. Darrouzet et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

The Scent of Royalty: A P450 Gene Signals Reproductive Status in a Social Insect

(2014) Katharina Hoffmann et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Conserved Class of Queen Pheromones Stops Social Insect Workers from Reproducing

(2014) A. Van Oystaeyen et al.   SCIENCE

Intracolony chemical communication in social insects

(2013) F.-J. Richard et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

A conserved fertility signal despite population variation in the cuticular chemical profile of the trap-jaw ant Odontomachus brunneus

(2013) A. A. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Head-butting as an Early Indicator of Reproductive Disinhibition in the Termite Zootermopsis nevadensis

(2012) Clint A. Penick et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR

Evidence for the stratification of hydrocarbons in the epicuticular wax layer of female Megacyllene robiniae (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

(2011) Gabriel P. Hughes et al.   CHEMOECOLOGY

Cooperation, Conflict, and the Evolution of Queen Pheromones

(2011) Sarah D. Kocher et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Queen-specific volatile in a higher termite Nasutitermes takasagoensis (Isoptera: Termitidae)

(2011) Chihiro Himuro et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

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

Cuticular hydrocarbon profiles indicate reproductive status in the termite Zootermopsis nevadensis

(2009) Jürgen Liebig et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Beyond cuticular hydrocarbons: evidence of proteinaceous secretion specific to termite kings and queens

(2009) R. Hanus et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Gene Necessary for Reproductive Suppression in Termites

(2009) J. Korb et al.   SCIENCE

New Contact Sex Pheromone Components of the German Cockroach, Blattella germanica, Predicted from the Proposed Biosynthetic Pathway

(2008) Dorit Eliyahu et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Scent of a queen—cuticular hydrocarbons specific for female reproductives in lower termites

(2008) Tobias Weil et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN