Almost royal: incomplete suppression of host worker ovarian development by a social parasite wasp

Colony take-over and brood survival in temporary social parasites of the ant genus Formica

(2013) Anton Chernenko et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Enforcement of Reproductive Synchrony via Policing in a Clonal Ant

(2013) Serafino Teseo et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ovarian indexes as indicators of reproductive investment and egg-laying activity in social insects: a comparison among methods

(2013) A. Cini et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Geographic distribution of the anti-parasite trait “slave rebellion”

(2012) Tobias Pamminger et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Assessment between species: information gathering in usurpation contests between a paper wasp and its social parasite

(2011) Jonathan P. Green et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Fight or fool? Physical strength, instead of sensory deception, matters in host nest invasion by a wasp social parasite

(2011) A. Cini et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

How the social parasitic bumblebee Bombus bohemicus sneaks into power of reproduction

(2011) Kirsten Kreuter et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

THE GEOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE OF SELECTION ON A COEVOLVING INTERACTION BETWEEN SOCIAL PARASITIC WASPS AND THEIR HOSTS HAMPERS SOCIAL EVOLUTION

(2011) M. Cristina Lorenzi et al.   EVOLUTION

A geographical mosaic of coevolution in a slave-making host-parasite system

(2011) F. RUANO et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Recognition of a paper wasp social parasite by its host: evidence for a visual signal reducing host aggressiveness

(2010) I. Ortolani et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Brood exchange experiments and chemical analyses shed light on slave rebellion in ants

(2010) Alexandra Achenbach et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The past, present and future of reproductive skew theory and experiments

(2010) Peter Nonacs et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Inhibition of Host Queen Reproductive Capacity by the Obligate Social Parasite Polistes atrimandibularis (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

(2010) Rita Cervo et al.   ETHOLOGY

Invasion of the Nest of Polistes dominulus by the Social Parasite Sulcopolistes sulcifer (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)1

(2010) S. Turillazzi et al.   ETHOLOGY

Host Specific Social Parasites (Psithyrus) Indicate Chemical Recognition System in Bumblebees

(2010) Stephen J. Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Mutual assessment via visual status signals in Polistes dominulus wasps

(2009) E. A. Tibbetts et al.   Biology Letters

FIRST EVIDENCE FOR SLAVE REBELLION: ENSLAVED ANT WORKERS SYSTEMATICALLY KILL THE BROOD OF THEIR SOCIAL PARASITEPROTOMOGNATHUS AMERICANUS

(2009) Alexandra Achenbach et al.   EVOLUTION

No actual conflict over colony inheritance despite high potential conflict in the social wasp Polistes dominulus

(2009) T. Monnin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Why are larvae of the social parasite wasp Polistes sulcifer not removed from the host nest?

(2008) R. Cervo et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Spring Usurpation Restlessness: A Wasp Social Parasite Adapts its Seasonal Activity to the Host Cycle

(2008) Irene Ortolani et al.   ETHOLOGY

Hierarchy length in orphaned colonies of the ant Temnothorax nylanderi

(2008) J. Heinze   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

On status badges and quality signals in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus: body size, facial colour patterns and hierarchical rank

(2008) R Cervo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES