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List of works by Paul Schmid-Hempel

A core linkage map of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris.

scientific article published on October 2006

A depauperate immune repertoire precedes evolution of sociality in bees

scientific article published on 24 April 2015

A distinct infection cost associated with trans-generational priming of antibacterial immunity in bumble-bees

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A field study on the influence of food and immune priming on a bumblebee-gut parasite system

scientific article published on 24 April 2012

A second generation genetic map of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758) reveals slow genome and chromosome evolution in the Apidae

scientific article (publication date: 19 January 2011)

Analysis of a normalised expressed sequence tag (EST) library from a key pollinator, the bumblebee Bombus terrestris

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Antagonistic Coevolution Accelerates the Evolution of Reproductive Isolation inTribolium castaneum

scientific article published on August 20, 2012

Antagonistic coevolution with parasites maintains host genetic diversity: an experimental test.

scientific article published on 4 August 2010

Antagonistic experimental coevolution with a parasite increases host recombination frequency.

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Bacterial Communities in Central European Bumblebees: Low Diversity and High Specificity

scientific article published on May 10, 2011

Bee Parasites: Don't Lose Your Flagellum

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Behavioural interactions, kin and disease susceptibility in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris

scientific article published in July 2004

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Chemistry of a Mating Plug in Bumblebees

Colony pace: a life-history trait affecting social insect epidemiology

scientific article published in January 2016

Complex adaptive responses during antagonistic coevolution between Tribolium castaneum and its natural parasite Nosema whitei revealed by multiple fitness components

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Controlling a generous host

scientific article published in Nature

DYNAMIC AND GENETIC CONSEQUENCES OF VARIATION IN HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION FOR A MICROPARASITIC INFECTION.

scientific article published in April 1999

Determinants of virulence for the parasite Nosema whitei in its host Tribolium castaneum

scientific article published in July 2005

Differential expression of immune defences is associated with specific host-parasite interactions in insects.

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Diversity and evolutionary patterns of bacterial gut associates of corbiculate bees

scientific article published on January 24, 2013

Diversity of Nosema associated with bumblebees (Bombus spp.) from China

scientific article published on November 22, 2011

Dynamic transmission, host quality, and population structure in a multihost parasite of bumblebees

scientific article published on 2 May 2012

Ecological effects on gut bacterial communities in wild bumblebee colonies

scientific article published on 18 June 2012

Effects of Inflorescence Size on Pollination in Epilobium angustifolium

scientific article published in 1988

Effects of selective episodes in the field on life history traits in the bumblebee <i>Bombus terrestris</i>

scientific article published on 06 May 2003

Endoparasitic flies, pollen-collection by bumblebees and a potential host-parasite conflict

scientific article published on 01 July 1991

Evolution of negative immune regulators

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Evolutionary Insights Should Not Be Wasted

scientific article published in 1987

Evolutionary ecology of insect immune defenses

scientific article published in January 2005

Experimental variation in polyandry affects parasite loads and fitness in a bumble-bee

scientific article published in Nature

Exploitation of cold temperature as defence against parasitoids in bumblebees

scientific article published in Nature

Extra Loads and Foraging Life Span in Honeybee Workers

scientific article (publication date: October 1989)

Facultative but persistent trans-generational immunity via the mother's eggs in bumblebees

scientific article published in December 2007

Few colonies of the host Bombus terrestris disproportionately affect the genetic diversity of its parasite, Crithidia bombi

scientific article published on 18 November 2013

Gene expression differences underlying genotype-by-genotype specificity in a host-parasite system

scientific article published on 18 February 2014

Genetic Variation in Antimicrobial Activity of Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Seminal Fluid

scientific article published on 09 December 2021

Genetic exchange and emergence of novel strains in directly transmitted trypanosomatids

scientific article published on January 18, 2011

Genomic Variation among Strains of Crithidia bombi and C. expoeki

scientific article published on 11 September 2019

Gut microbiota instead of host genotype drive the specificity in the interaction of a natural host-parasite system

scientific article published on 5 July 2012

Heritability of sperm length in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris

scientific article published in May 2006

High Gut Microbiota Diversity Provides Lower Resistance against Infection by an Intestinal Parasite in Bumblebees

scientific article published on 07 June 2018

Honeybees maximize efficiency by not filling their crop

scientific article (publication date: May 1985)

Host choice and fitness correlates for conopid flies parasitising bumblebees

scientific article published on 01 March 1996

Host choice in the phoretic mite Parasitellus fucorum (Mesostigmata: Parasitidae): which bumblebee caste is the best?

scientific article published in July 1998

Host effects on microbiota community assembly

scientific article published on 11 October 2017

Host modulation of parasite competition in multiple infections.

scientific article published on 4 April 2012

Immune defence, parasite evasion strategies and their relevance for 'macroscopic phenomena' such as virulence

scientific article published on January 2009

Immune gene expression in Bombus terrestris: signatures of infection despite strong variation among populations, colonies, and sister workers

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Immune response and gut microbial community structure in bumblebees after microbiota transplants

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Immune response inhibits associative learning in insects

scientific article published in December 2003

Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

scientific article published on March 2011

Infection with the trypanosome Crithidia bombi and expression of immune-related genes in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris

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Influence of co-evolution with a parasite, Nosema whitei, and population size on recombination rates and fitness in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum

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Insect antimicrobial peptides act synergistically to inhibit a trypanosome parasite

scientific article published on May 2016

Insect antimicrobial peptides show potentiating functional interactions against Gram-negative bacteria.

scientific article published in May 2015

Insect immunity shows specificity in protection upon secondary pathogen exposure

scientific article published in June 2006

Large scale patterns of abundance and distribution of parasites in Mexican bumblebees

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

Mutation accumulation in space and the maintenance of sexual reproduction

scientific article published in 2006

Natural insect host-parasite systems show immune priming and specificity: puzzles to be solved

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Nectar-collecting bees use Distance-sensitive movement rules

scientific article published on 18 April 2006

Nonadditive genetic components in resistance of the red flour beetle Tribolium castanaeum against parasite infection

scientific article published on 28 June 2008

Nosema bombi: A pollinator parasite with detrimental fitness effects

scientific article published on 31 March 2007

Novel microsatellite DNA loci for Bombus terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758).

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On the evolutionary ecology of specific immune defence

scientific article published in January 2003

Parasite immune evasion: a momentous molecular war.

scientific article published on 23 April 2008

Parasite infection of specific host genotypes relates to changes in prevalence in two natural populations of bumblebees

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Parasites and Their Social Hosts

scientific article published on 3 February 2017

Parasites delay worker reproduction in bumblebees: consequences for eusociality

scientific article published on 04 January 2007

Parasites--the new frontier: celebrating Darwin 200.

scientific article published on 26 August 2009

Paternally derived immune priming for offspring in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum

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Pathogenesis, virulence, and infective dose

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Patterns of Local Adaptation of a Protozoan Parasite to Its Bumblebee host

scientific article published in 1998

Perspectives on the evolutionary ecology of arthropod antimicrobial peptides.

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Population genetic structure and colonization history of Bombus terrestris s.l. (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from the Canary Islands and Madeira

scientific article published on 11 March 2003

Prevalence and Host Preferences of Mesostigmatic Mites (Acari: Anactinochaeta) Phoretic on Swiss Bumble Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Principles of ecological immunology.

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Probing Mixed-Genotype Infections I: Extraction and Cloning of Infections from Hosts of the Trypanosomatid Crithidia bombi

scientific article published on November 14, 2012

Probing Mixed-Genotype Infections II: High Multiplicity in Natural Infections of the Trypanosomatid, Crithidia bombi, in Its Host, Bombus spp

scientific article published on November 8, 2012

Protein-poor diet reduces host-specific immune gene expression in Bombus terrestris

scientific article published in July 2014

Qualitatively different immune response of the bumblebee host, Bombus terrestris, to infection by different genotypes of the trypanosome gut parasite, Crithidia bombi.

scientific article published on 19 September 2013

Royal Decree: Gene Expression in Trans-Generationally Immune Primed Bumblebee Workers Mimics a Primary Immune Response

scientific article published on 21 July 2016

Serial passage of the parasite Crithidia bombi within a colony of its host, Bombus terrestris, reduces success in unrelated hosts

scientific article published in March 2006

Social immunity.

scientific article published on August 2007

Social life-history response to individual immune challenge of workers of Bombus terrestris L.: a possible new cooperative phenomenon

scientific article published on 23 December 2004

Socially structured populations and evolution of recombination under antagonistic coevolution

scientific article published in September 2002

Socially transmitted gut microbiota protect bumble bees against an intestinal parasite

scientific article published on November 14, 2011

Specific versus nonspecific immune defense in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris L

scientific article published on 01 June 2003

Sperm influences female hibernation success, survival and fitness in the bumble-bee Bombus terrestris

scientific article published in February 2005

Strain-specific priming of resistance in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum

scientific article published in January 2009

Studying immunity at the whole organism level

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

Superparasitisme and larval competition in conopid flies (Dipt., Conopidae), parasitizing bumblebees (Hym., Apidae)

The Bee Microbiome: Impact on Bee Health and Model for Evolution and Ecology of Host-Microbe Interactions

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The Genotypic Structure of a Multi-Host Bumblebee Parasite Suggests a Role for Ecological Niche Overlap

scientific article published on August 10, 2011

The Importance of Population Processes for the Maintenance of Biological Diversity

scientific article published in 1995

The distribution of parasite strains among hosts affects disease spread in a social insect

scientific article published on 6 April 2015

The evolution of female multiple mating in social hymenoptera

scientific article published in September 2003

The genetic architecture of immune defense and reproduction in male Bombus terrestris bumblebees.

scientific article published in April 2007

The genetic architecture of susceptibility to parasites

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The genomes of Crithidia bombi and C. expoeki, common parasites of bumblebees.

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The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization

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The invasion of southern South America by imported bumblebees and associated parasites

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Trans-generational immune priming in a social insect

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Unveiling cryptic species of the bumblebee subgenusBombus s. str.worldwide with COI barcodes (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

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Variation in immune defence as a question of evolutionary ecology

scientific article published in February 2003

Worker mortality and colony development in bumblebees, Bombus lucorum (L.) (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

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