Forewarned is forearmed: aggression and information use determine fitness costs of slave raids

Behavioural syndromes and social insects: personality at multiple levels

(2013) Jennifer M. Jandt et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Increased aggression during pregnancy comes at a higher metabolic cost

(2013) F. Seebacher et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Mouse alarm pheromone shares structural similarity with predator scents

(2013) J. Brechbuhl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Costly reproductive competition between females in a monogamous cooperatively breeding bird

(2013) M. J. Nelson-Flower et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The growth benefits of aggressive behavior vary with individual metabolism and resource predictability

(2012) Mia O. Hoogenboom et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Nest site and weather affect the personality of harvester ant colonies

(2012) Noa Pinter-Wollman et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Raiders from the sky: slavemaker founding queens select for aggressive host colonies

(2012) T. Pamminger et al.   Biology Letters

Characterizing the Collective Personality of Ant Societies: Aggressive Colonies Do Not Abandon Their Home

(2012) Inon Scharf et al.   PLoS One

Diverse societies are more productive: a lesson from ants

(2012) A. P. Modlmeier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Inducible Defenses: Continuous Reaction Norms or Threshold Traits?

(2011) Thomas Owens Svennungsen et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Amazonian social spiders share similar within-colony behavioural variation and behavioural syndromes

(2011) Jonathan N. Pruitt et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Behavioural syndromes at multiple scales in Myrmica ants

(2011) Ben B. Chapman et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Collective personalities in honeybee colonies are linked to colony fitness

(2011) Margaret K. Wray et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Increased host aggression as an induced defense against slave-making ants

(2011) Tobias Pamminger et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Lethal combat over limited resources: testing the importance of competitors and kin

(2011) Tabitha M. Innocent et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Impact of a social parasite on ant host populations depends on host species, habitat and year

(2011) INON SCHARF et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Testing the adjustable threshold model for intruder recognition on Myrmica ants in the context of a social parasite

(2011) M. A. Furst et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Slave-making ants prefer larger, better defended host colonies

(2010) Sebastian Pohl et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Dear enemy phenomenon in the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex lobicornis: behavioral and genetic evidence

(2010) Romina D. Dimarco et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Variation in aggressive behaviour in the poeciliid fish Brachyrhaphis episcopi: Population and sex differences

(2010) Gabrielle A. Archard et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

The police are not the army: context-dependent aggressiveness in a clonal ant

(2010) M. B. Barth et al.   Biology Letters

Weaver ants Oecophylla smaragdina encounter nasty neighbors rather than dear enemies

(2010) Philip S. Newey et al.   ECOLOGY

Personality traits and dispersal tendency in the invasive mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)

(2010) J. Cote et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Assessment of fighting ability in animal contests

(2009) Gareth Arnott et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Context-dependent plasticity of aggressive signalling in a dynamic social environment

(2009) Sarah C. Humfeld et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

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

(2009) Susanne Foitzik et al.   ECOLOGY

Fitness consequences of personality: a meta-analysis

(2008) Brian R. Smith et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY