Effects of social immunity and unicoloniality on host-parasite interactions in invasive insect societies

DYNAMIC TRANSMISSION, HOST QUALITY, AND POPULATION STRUCTURE IN A MULTIHOST PARASITE OF BUMBLEBEES

(2012) Mario X. Ruiz-González et al.   EVOLUTION

Global Honey Bee Viral Landscape Altered by a Parasitic Mite

(2012) S. J. Martin et al.   SCIENCE

Social Transfer of Pathogenic Fungus Promotes Active Immunisation in Ant Colonies

(2012) Matthias Konrad et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Ecological effects and management of invasive alien Vespidae

(2011) Jacqueline R. Beggs et al.   BIOCONTROL

Effects of Invasive Parasites on Bumble Bee Declines

(2011) IVAN MEEUS et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Colony Breeding System Influences Cuticular Bacterial Load of Formosan Subterranean Termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) Workers

(2011) Claudia Husseneder et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Founder events predict changes in genetic diversity during human-mediated range expansions

(2011) Tobias Uller et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Prevalence and genetic diversity of three bacterial endosymbionts (Wolbachia, Arsenophonus, and Rhizobiales) associated with the invasive yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes)

(2011) A. Sebastien et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Sick ants become unsociable

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

Intercontinental differences in resource use reveal the importance of mutualisms in fire ant invasions

(2011) S. M. Wilder et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees

(2011) S. A. Cameron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Beyond the antipredatory defence: Honey bee venom function as a component of social immunity

(2011) David Baracchi et al.   TOXICON

Propolis and bee health: the natural history and significance of resin use by honey bees

(2010) Michael Simone-Finstrom et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Inbreeding and caste-specific variation in immune defence in the ant Formica exsecta

(2010) Emma Vitikainen et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Competition between invasive and indigenous species: an insular case study of subterranean termites

(2010) E. Perdereau et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Loss of microbial (pathogen) infections associated with recent invasions of the red imported fire ant Solenopsis invicta

(2010) Chin-Cheng Yang et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Trophallaxis and prophylaxis: social immunity in the carpenter ant Camponotus pennsylvanicus

(2010) C. Hamilton et al.   Biology Letters

Moribund Ants Leave Their Nests to Die in Social Isolation

(2010) Jürgen Heinze et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Behavioral defense strategies of the stingless bee, Austroplebeia australis, against the small hive beetle, Aethina tumida

(2010) M. Halcroft et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Transmission of deformed wing virus and slow paralysis virus to adult bees (Apis mellifera L.) by Varroa destructor

(2010) M. Teresa Santillán-Galicia et al.   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

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

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

Varroa destructor is an effective vector of Israeli acute paralysis virus in the honeybee, Apis mellifera

(2010) G. Di Prisco et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY

Wolbachia-Mediated Resistance to Dengue Virus Infection and Death at the Cellular Level

(2010) Francesca D. Frentiu et al.   PLoS One

RNA Viruses in Hymenopteran Pollinators: Evidence of Inter-Taxa Virus Transmission via Pollen and Potential Impact on Non-Apis Hymenopteran Species

(2010) Rajwinder Singh et al.   PLoS One

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

Genetic diversity, parasite prevalence and immunity in wild bumblebees

(2010) P. R. Whitehorn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers

(2010) Simon G. Potts et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Ecological impacts of invasive alien species on bees

(2009) Jane C. Stout et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Bumblebee vulnerability and conservation world-wide

(2009) Paul H. Williams et al.   APIDOLOGIE

The Polistes war: weak immune function in the invasive P. dominulus relative to the native P. fuscatus

(2009) N. Wilson-Rich et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Socialized medicine: Individual and communal disease barriers in honey bees

(2009) Jay D. Evans et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Biology and control of Varroa destructor

(2009) Peter Rosenkranz et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Antimicrobial Peptide Evolution in the Asiatic Honey Bee Apis cerana

(2009) Peng Xu et al.   PLoS One

Fungal infection counters insecticide resistance in African malaria mosquitoes

(2009) M. Farenhorst et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Unicolonial ants: where do they come from, what are they and where are they going?

(2009) Heikki Helanterä et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

South American native bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) infected byNosema ceranae(Microsporidia), an emerging pathogen of honeybees (Apis mellifera)

(2009) Santiago Plischuk et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Genetic, Individual, and Group Facilitation of Disease Resistance in Insect Societies

(2008) Noah Wilson-Rich et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Biology of Subterranean Termites: Insights from Molecular Studies ofReticulitermesandCoptotermes

(2008) Edward L. Vargo et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Ecological effects of invasive alien insects

(2008) Marc Kenis et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

The introduction history of invasive garden ants in Europe: integrating genetic, chemical and behavioural approaches

(2008) Line V Ugelvig et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Unicoloniality in Reticulitermes urbis: a novel feature in a potentially invasive termite species

(2008) L. Leniaud et al.   BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Potential host shift of the small hive beetle (Aethina tumida) to bumblebee colonies (Bombus impatiens)

(2008) D. Hoffmann et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Does Pathogen Spillover from Commercially Reared Bumble Bees Threaten Wild Pollinators?

(2008) Michael C. Otterstatter et al.   PLoS One

The Evolution of Invasiveness in Garden Ants

(2008) Sylvia Cremer et al.   PLoS One

Wolbachia and Virus Protection in Insects

(2008) L. M. Hedges et al.   SCIENCE

Decline and Conservation of Bumble Bees

(2007) D. Goulson et al.   Annual Review of Entomology