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List of works by Sylvia Cremer

Adaptive production of fighter males: queens of the ant Cardiocondyla adjust the sex ratio under local mate competition

scientific article published in February 2002

Analogies in the evolution of individual and social immunity

scientific article (publication date: 12 January 2009)

Ant queens increase their reproductive efforts after pathogen infection.

scientific article published on 05 July 2017

Anti-pathogen protection versus survival costs mediated by an ectosymbiont in an ant host

scientific article (publication date: 22 January 2015)

Ants avoid superinfections by performing risk-adjusted sanitary care.

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

Ants disinfect fungus-exposed brood by oral uptake and spread of their poison.

scientific article

Behavioural defences against parasites across host social structures

scientific article published on 14 March 2023

Co-founding ant queens prevent disease by performing prophylactic undertaking behaviour

scientific article published on 13 October 2017

Competition and opportunity shape the reproductive tactics of males in the ant Cardiocondyla obscurior

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 30 October 2018

Destructive disinfection of infected brood prevents systemic disease spread in ant colonies.

scientific article published on 9 January 2018

Dynamic pathogen detection and social feedback shape collective hygiene in ants

scientific article published on 3 June 2023

Early queen infection shapes developmental dynamics and induces long‐term disease protection in incipient ant colonies

scientific article published in November 2021

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

article by Line Vej Ugelvig & Sylvia Cremer published 21 November 2012 in Functional Ecology

Frequent horizontal chromosome transfer between asexual fungal insect pathogens

scientific article published on 5 March 2024

Fungal disease dynamics in insect societies: optimal killing rates and the ambivalent effect of high social interaction rates

scientific article published on 26 February 2015

Imperfect chemical female mimicry in males of the ant Cardiocondyla obscurior.

scientific article published on 5 August 2008

Increased grooming after repeated brood care provides sanitary benefits in a clonal ant

scientific article published in 2014

Individual and social immunisation in insects.

scientific article published on 20 September 2014

Long repeats in a huge genome: microsatellite loci in the grasshopper Chorthippus biguttulus

scientific article

Opposing effects of allogrooming on disease transmission in ant societies.

scientific article published on May 2015

Organisational immunity in social insects

scientific article published on 15 September 2014

Pathogen evasion of social immunity

scientific article published on 2 February 2023

Pathogens and disease defense of invasive ants

scientific article published on 05 April 2019

Plasticity in antiparasite behaviours and its suggested role in invasion biology

article by David P. Hughes & Sylvia Cremer published November 2007 in Animal Behaviour

Principles of disease defence in organisms, superorganisms and societies

scientific article published on 25 October 2022

Pupal cocoons affect sanitary brood care and limit fungal infections in ant colonies

scientific article

Queen number influences the timing of the sexual production in colonies of Cardiocondyla ants

scientific article published on December 2008

Rapid anti-pathogen response in ant societies relies on high genetic diversity

scientific article published on 5 May 2010

Sexual cooperation: mating increases longevity in ant queens.

scientific article

Social Immunity: Emergence and Evolution of Colony-Level Disease Protection

scientific article published on 25 September 2017

Social environment affects the transcriptomic response to bacteria in ant queens

scientific article published on 24 October 2018

Social immunity in insects

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Social immunity modulates competition between coinfecting pathogens

scientific article published on 16 January 2020

Social immunity.

scientific article published on August 2007

Social influence on age and reproduction: reduced lifespan and fecundity in multi-queen ant colonies

scientific article published on 21 April 2011

Social network plasticity decreases disease transmission in a eusocial insect

scientific article

Social transfer of pathogenic fungus promotes active immunisation in ant colonies

scientific article

Sociality and health: impacts of sociality on disease susceptibility and transmission in animal and human societies

scientific article published on May 2015

Stealthy invaders: the biology of Cardiocondyla tramp ants

Stress grows wings: environmental induction of winged dispersal males in Cardiocondyla ants

scientific article published in February 2003

The dynamics of male-male competition in Cardiocondyla obscurior ants

scientific article

The evolution of invasiveness in garden ants ⬇️

scientific article

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

scientific article

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