The role of per-capita productivity in the evolution of small colony sizes in ants

Colony size explains the lifespan differences between queens and workers in eusocial Hymenoptera

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

(2011) Tobias Pamminger 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

Spatial structure and nest demography reveal the influence of competition, parasitism and habitat quality on slavemaking ants and their hosts

(2011) Inon Scharf et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Allometric Scaling of Metabolism, Growth, and Activity in Whole Colonies of the Seed‐Harvester Ant Pogonomyrmex californicus

(2010) James S. Waters et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Slave-making ants prefer larger, better defended host colonies

(2010) Sebastian Pohl et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Apparent Dear-enemy Phenomenon and Environment-based Recognition Cues in the Ant Leptothorax nylanderi

(2010) Jürgen Heinze et al.   ETHOLOGY

Cooperation and Prey Capture Efficiency in a Social Spider, Anelosimus eximius (Araneae, Theridiidae)

(2010) Alain Pasquet et al.   ETHOLOGY

coancestry: a program for simulating, estimating and analysing relatedness and inbreeding coefficients

(2010) JINLIANG WANG   Molecular Ecology Resources

Energetic basis of colonial living in social insects

(2010) Chen Hou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Larger colonies do not have more specialized workers in the ant Temnothorax albipennis

(2009) Anna Dornhaus et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

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

(2009) Susanne Foitzik et al.   ECOLOGY

Advantages of multiple foundress colonies in Belonogaster juncea juncea L.: greater survival and increased productivity

(2008) MAURICE TINDO et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Cooperative capture of large prey solves scaling challenge faced by spider societies

(2008) E. C. Yip et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA