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List of works by William T. Wcislo

A Male Sleeping Roost of a Sweat Bee, Augochlorella neglectula (Ckll.) (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), in Panamá

A New Ectoparasitoid Species ofPseudogauraxMalloch, 1915 (Diptera: Chloropidae), Attacking the Fungus-Growing Ant,Apterostigma dentigerumWheeler, 1925 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

A New Species of Lasioglossum from Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

scholarly article by William T. Wcislo published 1990 in Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

A split sex ratio in solitary and social nests of a facultatively social bee

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Acanthopria and Mimopriella parasitoid wasps (Diapriidae) attack Cyphomyrmex fungus-growing ants (Formicidae, Attini).

scientific article published on 29 November 2005

Acrostichus megaloptae n. sp. (Nematoda: Diplogastridae), a phoretic associate of Megalopta spp. (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) in Central America

scientific article published in 2010

Active use of the metapleural glands by ants in controlling fungal infection

scientific article (publication date: 7 July 2006)

Aggressive mimicry in a coral reef fish: The prey's view

scientific article published on 20 October 2020

An Anatomically Constrained Model for Path Integration in the Bee Brain

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

An evaluation of the possible adaptive function of fungal brood covering by Attine ants.

scientific article published on 6 February 2012

An inexpensive and portable microvolumeter for rapid evaluation of biological samples

scientific article

Anatomical and physiological evidence for polarisation vision in the nocturnal bee Megalopta genalis

scientific article published on 16 February 2007

Ant-plant sociometry in the Azteca-Cecropia mutualism

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Azteca ants repair damage to their Cecropia host plants

scientific article

Behavioural environments and niche construction: the evolution of dim-light foraging in bees

scientific article

Big brains, little bodies

scientific article published in December 2012

Body Size Shapes Caste Expression, and Cleptoparasitism Reduces Body Size in the Facultatively Eusocial Bees Megalopta (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

article

Caste-biased gene expression in a facultatively eusocial bee suggests a role for genetic accommodation in the evolution of eusociality.

scientific article published in January 2017

Characterization of 12 polymorphic microsatellite markers for a facultatively eusocial sweat bee (Megalopta genalis) ⬇️

scientific article published on April 15, 2009

Cleaner mites: sanitary mutualism in the miniature ecosystem of neotropical bee nests

scientific article

Club Fights in the Weevil Macromerus bicinctus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Colony-level non-associative plasticity of alarm responses in the stingless honey bee, Tetragonisca angustula.

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

Consequences of evolutionary transitions in changing photic environments

Developmental Transcriptome for a Facultatively Eusocial Bee, Megalopta genalis.

scientific article

Developmental plasticity shapes social traits and selection in a facultatively eusocial bee

scientific article published on 29 May 2020

Dominant-Subordinate Relationships in a Facultatively Social, Nocturnal Bee, Megalopta genalis (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

article published in 2003

Draft Genome Assembly and Population Genetics of an Agricultural Pollinator, the Solitary Alkali Bee (Halictidae: )

article

Draft genome assembly and population genetics of an agricultural pollinator, the solitary alkali bee (Halictidae: Nomia melanderi)

article

Dynamic disease management in Trachymyrmex fungus-growing ants (Attini: Formicidae).

scientific article published on 27 February 2013

Eggs of the Blind Snake,Liotyphlops albirostris, Are Incubated in a Nest of the Lower Fungus-Growing Ant,  Apterostigmacf.goniodes

article

Environment or kin: whence do bees obtain acidophilic bacteria?

scientific article published on 16 February 2012

Fijian farming ants resolve the guns-or-butter dilemma for their crop plants

scientific article published on 04 February 2020

Flight control and landing precision in the nocturnal bee Megalopta is robust to large changes in light intensity

scientific article

Flight performance in night-flying sweat bees suffers at low light levels

scientific article published in November 2007

Foundress polyphenism and the origins of eusociality in a facultatively eusocial sweat bee, Megalopta genalis (Halictidae)

article

Functional role of phenylacetic acid from metapleural gland secretions in controlling fungal pathogens in evolutionarily derived leaf-cutting ants.

scientific article published in May 2015

Fungal-Fungal Interactions in Leaf-Cutting Ant Agriculture

article

Host Nest Discrimination by a Cleptoparasitic Fly, Metopia campestris (Fallén) (Diptera: Sarcophagidae: Miltogramminae)

scientific article published in 1986

Host species and developmental stage, but not host social structure, affects bacterial community structure in socially polymorphic bees

scientific article

Host-associated microbiomes drive structure and function of marine ecosystems

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

Hygiene Defense Behaviors Used by a Fungus-Growing Ant Depend on the Fungal Pathogen Stages

article

In defence of inclusive fitness theory ⬇️

scientific article published on March 24, 2011

Juvenile hormone levels reflect social opportunities in the facultatively eusocial sweat bee Megalopta genalis (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on September 8, 2012

Kinship, parental manipulation and evolutionary origins of eusociality

scientific article published in March 2015

Latitudinal Distribution of Obligate Parasitic Behavior in Bees, Wasps, and Ants

Leaf endophyte load influences fungal garden development in leaf-cutting ants

scientific article

Light intensity limits foraging activity in nocturnal and crepuscular bees

article by Almut Kelber et al published 16 November 2005 in Behavioral Ecology

Male Territoriality and Nesting Behavior of Calliopsis hondurasicus Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae)

Natural experiments and long-term monitoring are critical to understand and predict marine host-microbe ecology and evolution

publication published on 19 August 2021

Nest construction behavior by the orchid bee Euglossa hyacinthina

article

Nesting and Social Behavior of a Wood-Dwelling Neotropical Bee, Augochlora isthmii (Schwarz), and Notes on a New Species, A. alexanderi Engel (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

Nesting biology of tropical solitary and social sweat bees,Lasioglossum (Dialictus) figueresi Wcislo andL. (D.) aeneiventre (Friese) (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

article

Neural organisation in the first optic ganglion of the nocturnal bee Megalopta genalis

scientific article published on 10 September 2004

Night-Flying Sweat Bees Megalopta genalis and Me. ecuadoria (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) as Hosts of the Parasitoid Beetle Macrosiagon gracilis (Coleoptera: Rhipiphoridae)

article by Zachary H Falin et al published 2000 in Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Nocturnal insects use optic flow for flight control

scientific article published on 9 February 2011

Nocturnal vision and landmark orientation in a tropical halictid bee.

scientific article published on August 2004

Nutrition mediates the expression of cultivar-farmer conflict in a fungus-growing ant.

scientific article published on 22 August 2016

Nutritional niches reveal fundamental domestication trade-offs in fungus-farming ants

scientific article published on 26 October 2020

Ocellar adaptations for dim light vision in a nocturnal bee.

scientific article

Ocellar optics in nocturnal and diurnal bees and wasps

scientific article

Olfactory specialization for perfume collection in male orchid bees.

scientific article

Photic niche invasions: phylogenetic history of the dim-light foraging augochlorine bees (Halictidae) ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 22 February 2012)

Physiological variation as a mechanism for developmental caste-biasing in a facultatively eusocial sweat bee ⬇️

scientific article published on November 2, 2011

Reciprocal genomic evolution in the ant-fungus agricultural symbiosis

scientific article

Reduced biological control and enhanced chemical pest management in the evolution of fungus farming in ants ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 March 2009

Slowing them down will make them lose: a role for attine ant crop fungus in defending pupae against infections?

scientific article published on 2 May 2016

Social Behavior and Nest Architecture of Nomiine Bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae; Nomiinae)

Socially induced brain development in a facultatively eusocial sweat bee Megalopta genalis (Halictidae)

scientific article

Specialization and group size: brain and behavioural correlates of colony size in ants lacking morphological castes

scientific article published in February 2015

Support for maternal manipulation of developmental nutrition in a facultatively eusocial bee, Megalopta genalis (Halictidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on January 6, 2011

Survival and productivity benefits to social nesting in the sweat bee Megalopta genalis (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

article

Symbiotic fungi alter plant chemistry that discourages leaf-cutting ants

scientific article published on 13 February 2013

Synthesis of 23-, 25-, 27-, and 29-Membered ( Z)-Selective Unsaturated and Saturated Macrocyclic Lactones from 16- and 17-Membered Macrocyclic Lactones and Bromoalcohols by Wittig Reaction, Yamaguchi Macrolactonization, and Photoinduced Decarboxylat

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

The Allometry of Brain Miniaturization in Ants ⬇️

scientific article published on January 20, 2011

The allometry of CNS size and consequences of miniaturization in orb-weaving and cleptoparasitic spiders ⬇️

scientific article published on October 29, 2011

Two New and Highly Apomorphic Species of the Lasioglossum Subgenus Evylaeus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) from Central America

article

Two fungal symbioses collide: endophytic fungi are not welcome in leaf-cutting ant gardens

scientific article published in April 2009

Visual reliability and information rate in the retina of a nocturnal bee.

scientific article

Visual summation in night-flying sweat bees: a theoretical study

scientific article published on 20 February 2006

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