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A Historical-Genetic Reconstruction of Human Extra-Pair Paternity

scientific article published on 14 November 2019

A general model for the evolution of mutualisms.

scientific article

A high recombination rate in eusocial Hymenoptera: evidence from the common wasp Vespula vulgaris ⬇️

scientific article published on November 4, 2011

A test of worker policing theory in an advanced eusocial wasp, Vespula rufa

scientific article published in June 2005

Altruism in insect societies and beyond: voluntary or enforced?

scientific article published on 20 December 2007

Analysis of Cuticular Lipids of the Pharaoh Ant (Monomorium pharaonis) and Their Selective Adsorption on Insecticidal Zeolite Powders

scientific article published on 17 September 2018

Antibiotic dose and nutrient availability differentially drive the evolution of antibiotic resistance and persistence

scientific article published in January 2024

Arthropods Associate with their Red Wood ant Host without Matching Nestmate Recognition Cues.

scientific article

Bacterial persistence promotes the evolution of antibiotic resistance by increasing survival and mutation rates

scientific article published on 15 January 2019

BeeDoctor, a versatile MLPA-based diagnostic tool for screening bee viruses.

scientific article published on 29 October 2012

Bioassay-guided isolation of active substances from Semen Torreyae identifies two new anthelmintic compounds with novel mechanism of action

scientific article published on 19 June 2018

Biohistorical materials and contemporary privacy concerns-the forensic case of King Albert I.

scientific article published on 22 July 2016

Biological activity of the enantiomers of 3-methylhentriacontane, a queen pheromone of the ant Lasius niger.

scientific article

Bourgeois behavior and freeloading in the colonial orb web spider Parawixia bistriata (Araneae, Araneidae).

scientific article published on 21 May 2013

Caste fate conflict in swarm-founding social hymenoptera: an inclusive fitness analysis.

scientific article published in July 2003

Chemical Strategies of the Beetle Metoecus Paradoxus, Social Parasite of the Wasp Vespula Vulgaris

scientific article published on 28 November 2015

Cloning and sequencing of wsp encoding gene fragments reveals a diversity of co-infecting Wolbachia strains in Acromyrmex leafcutter ants

scientific article

Co-occurrence of three types of egg policing in the Norwegian wasp Dolichovespula norwegica

article by Wim Bonckaert et al published 24 September 2010 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Colony stage and not facultative policing explains pattern of worker reproduction in the Saxon wasp

scientific article published on 18 July 2011

Comparative analysis of worker reproduction and policing in eusocial hymenoptera supports relatedness theory.

scientific article published on 18 October 2006

Comparative study in stingless bees (Meliponini) demonstrates that nest entrance size predicts traffic and defensivity

scientific article (publication date: 16 November 2007)

Comprehensive bee pathogen screening in Belgium reveals Crithidia mellificae as a new contributory factor to winter mortality

scientific article

Conflict resolution in insect societies.

scientific article

Conservation of Queen Pheromones Across Two Species of Vespine Wasps.

scientific article

Conserved class of queen pheromones stops social insect workers from reproducing

scientific article

Conserved queen pheromones in bumblebees: a reply to Amsalem et al

scientific article

Contrasting indirect effects of an ant host on prey-predator interactions of symbiotic arthropods

scientific article published on 25 October 2018

Covert deformed wing virus infections have long-term deleterious effects on honeybee foraging and survival

scientific article published in February 2017

Cross-activity of honeybee queen mandibular pheromone in bumblebees provides evidence for sensory exploitation

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

Cuckolded Fathers Rare in Human Populations.

scientific article

Cuticular hydrocarbons provide reliable cues of fertility in the ant Gnamptogenys striatula.

scientific article published on 11 August 2006

Deleterious Wolbachia in the ant Formica truncorum.

scientific article published in March 2002

Differential diagnosis of the honey bee trypanosomatids Crithidia mellificae and Lotmaria passim.

scientific article

Diploid Male Production Results in Queen Death in the Stingless Bee Scaptotrigona depilis.

scientific article published on 6 April 2017

Do well-integrated species of an inquiline community have a lower brood predation tendency? A test using red wood ant myrmecophiles

scientific article

Dual effect of wasp queen pheromone in regulating insect sociality.

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

Early changes in the pupal transcriptome of the flesh fly Sarcophagha crassipalpis to parasitization by the ectoparasitic wasp, Nasonia vitripennis.

scientific article

Enforced altruism in insect societies

scientific article published in November 2006

Estimated transmissibility and impact of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in England

scientific article published on 26 December 2020

Evolution of Self-Organized Task Specialization in Robot Swarms

scientific article

Evolution. Policing insect societies

scientific article published in January 2005

Extending the honey bee venome with the antimicrobial peptide apidaecin and a protein resembling wasp antigen 5.

scientific article published on 25 January 2013

Fast and Reliable Quantitative Peptidomics with labelpepmatch.

scientific article published on February 2016

Fifteen shades of green: The evolution of Bufotes toads revisited

scientific article published on 11 September 2019

Fitness trade-offs explain low levels of persister cells in the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

scientific article published on 17 March 2015

Frequency of antibiotic application drives rapid evolutionary adaptation of Escherichia coli persistence

scientific article published on 7 March 2016

Functional divergence of gene duplicates through ectopic recombination

scientific article published on 16 October 2012

Genetic-genealogy approach reveals low rate of extrapair paternity in historical Dutch populations.

scientific article published on 25 July 2017

Genome sequence heterogeneity of Lake Sinai Virus found in honey bees and Orf1/RdRP-based polymorphisms in a single host.

scientific article published on 25 February 2015

Genome-wide analysis of alternative reproductive phenotypes in honeybee workers.

scientific article published on 9 September 2011

Honeybees possess a structurally diverse and functionally redundant set of queen pheromones

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Hormonal pleiotropy helps maintain queen signal honesty in a highly eusocial wasp

scientific article

Hydrocarbon signatures of egg maternity, caste membership and reproductive status in the common wasp.

scientific article published on 11 January 2012

In silico detection of phylogenetic informative Y-chromosomal single nucleotide polymorphisms from whole genome sequencing data.

scientific article

Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

scientific article published on March 2011

Intraspecific queen parasitism in a highly eusocial bee.

scientific article

Knowing your enemies: seasonal dynamics of host-social parasite recognition

scientific article published on 2 October 2004

Lack of genetic structuring, low effective population sizes and major bottlenecks characterise common and German wasps in New Zealand

scientific article published on 25 June 2019

Large interclone differences in melezitose secretion in the facultatively ant-tended black bean aphid Aphis fabae ⬇️

scientific article published on August 26, 2011

Levels of clonal mixing in the black bean aphid Aphis fabae, a facultative ant mutualist.

scientific article published on 21 July 2011

Long-term Trends in Human Extra-Pair Paternity: Increased Infidelity or Adaptive Strategy? A Reply to Harris.

scientific article published on 21 July 2016

Low historical rates of cuckoldry in a Western European human population traced by Y-chromosome and genealogical data.

scientific article published in December 2013

Material properties determining insecticidal activity of activated carbon on the pharaoh ant (Monomorium pharaonis)

scholarly article by Heleen Van Den Noortgate et al published 19 July 2018 in Journal of Pest Science

Material properties determining the insecticidal activity of highly divided porous materials on the pharaoh ant (Monomorium pharaonis).

scientific article published in December 2017

Modelling social evolution: the relative merits and limitations of a Hamilton's rule-based approach.

scientific article published in September 2006

No evidence of enemy release in pathogen and microbial communities of common wasps (Vespula vulgaris) in their native and introduced range ⬇️

scientific article

Parent of origin gene expression in the bumblebee, <i>Bombus terrestris</i>, supports Haig's kinship theory for the evolution of genomic imprinting

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

Population Bottlenecks Strongly Affect the Evolutionary Dynamics of Antibiotic Persistence

scientific article published on 29 July 2021

Queen signaling in social wasps

scientific article published on 3 December 2013

Reproduction of honeybee workers is regulated by epidermal growth factor receptor signaling

scientific article published on 10 December 2013

Scale-Free Correlations in Flocking Systems with Position-Based Interactions

article published in 2014

Sensory and cognitive adaptations to social living in insect societies.

scientific article published on 9 June 2017

Sneaky queens in Melipona bees selectively detect and infiltrate queenless colonies

Social evolution: when promiscuity breeds cooperation

scientific article published in November 2012

The Crabtree Effect Shapes the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Lag Phase during the Switch between Different Carbon Sources

scientific article published on 30 October 2018

The association between mitochondrial genetic variation and reduced colony fitness in an invasive wasp

scientific article published on 19 July 2019

The effect of forager loss on honeybee workers temporal polyethism and social network structure

scientific article published in 2023

The effect of host plants on genotype variability in fitness and honeydew composition of Aphis fabae

scientific article

The fungal aroma gene ATF1 promotes dispersal of yeast cells through insect vectors

scientific article

The indirect effect of nectar-inhabiting yeasts on olfactory responses and longevity of two stink bug egg parasitoids

scientific article published in 2024

The origin and evolution of queen and fertility signals in Corbiculate bees

scientific article

The origin and evolution of social insect queen pheromones: Novel hypotheses and outstanding problems.

scientific article published on 27 April 2015

The role of cuticular hydrocarbons in mate recognition in Drosophila suzukii

scientific article published on 22 March 2018

Towards greater realism in inclusive fitness models: the case of worker reproduction in insect societies

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Tragedy of the commons in Melipona bees

scientific article published in August 2004

Uncertainty about social interactions leads to the evolution of social heuristics.

scientific article

Unusual modes of reproduction in social insects: shedding light on the evolutionary paradox of sex ⬇️

scientific article published on October 14, 2011

Variability in growth/no growth boundaries of 188 different Escherichia coli strains reveals that approximately 75% have a higher growth probability under low pH conditions than E. coli O157:H7 strain ATCC 43888.

scientific article published on 12 July 2014

Vertical transmission of honey bee viruses in a Belgian queen breeding program

scientific article

When Resistance Is Useless: Policing and the Evolution of Reproductive Acquiescence in Insect Societies.

scientific article published in December 2004

Widespread occurrence of honey bee pathogens in solitary bees

scientific article published on 6 September 2014

Widespread occurrence of the micro-organism Wolbachia in ants

scientific article published in August 1998

Worker honeybee sterility: a proteomic analysis of suppressed ovary activation.

scientific article

Worker reproduction and policing in insect societies: an ESS analysis

scientific article

Working-class royalty: bees beat the caste system

scientific article

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