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Altruism - A Philosophical Analysis

Altruism across disciplines: one word, multiple meanings

article published in 2012

An Ancient and Eroded Social Supergene Is Widespread across Formica Ants

scientific article published on 02 January 2020

Ant brood function as life preservers during floods

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Ant workers exhibit specialization and memory during raft formation

scientific article published on 7 April 2016

Ants exhibit asymmetric hybridization in a mosaic hybrid zone.

scientific article published on 10 August 2016

Asymmetric assortative mating and queen polyandry are linked to a supergene controlling ant social organization

scientific article published on 31 July 2018

Bidirectional shifts in colony queen number in a socially polymorphic ant population

scientific article published on 20 December 2012

Born to be bee, fed to be worker? The caste system of a primitively eusocial insect

scientific article published on 10 December 2012

Choosy moral punishers

scientific article

Conditional Manipulation of Sex Ratios by Ant Workers: A Test of Kin Selection Theory

scientific article published on November 1996

Convergent genetic architecture underlies social organization in ants

scientific article published on 23 October 2014

Cooperation among Selfish Individuals in Insect Societies

article by Laurent Keller & Michel Chapuisat published November 1999 in BioScience

Cooperation by ant queens during colony-founding perpetuates alternative forms of social organization

scientific article published on 30 November 2021

Covariation between colony social structure and immune defences of workers in the ant Formica selysi

Developmental, metabolic and immunological costs of flea infestation in the common vole

scholarly article by Godefroy Devevey et al published December 2008 in Functional Ecology

Disentangling the mechanisms linking dispersal and sociality in supergene-mediated ant social forms

scientific article published in 2021

Diversity, prevalence and virulence of fungal entomopathogens in colonies of the ant Formica selysi

article published in 2011

Division of labour and worker size polymorphism in ant colonies: the impact of social and genetic factors

scientific article published in 2005

Division of labour influences the rate of ageing in weaver ant workers

scientific article published in May 2002

Effects of the social environment on the survival and fungal resistance of ant brood

scientific article published in 2011

Environmental influence on the phenotype of ant workers revealed by common garden experiment

scientific article published in 2016

Eusociality and Cooperation

Evidence for collective medication in ants

article

Evolution. Smells like queen since the Cretaceous.

scientific article published in January 2014

Evolution: Plastic Sociality in a Sweat Bee ⬇️

scientific article published on November 23, 2010

Evolution: social selection for eccentricity

scientific article

Experimental manipulation of colony genetic diversity had no effect on short-term task efficiency in the Argentine ant Linepithema humile

article

Experimentally increased group diversity improves disease resistance in an ant species

scientific article published on 26 March 2008

Extended family structure in the ant Formica paralugubris : the role of the breeding system

scientific article published in 1999

Fine-scale habitat heterogeneity favours the coexistence of supergene-controlled social forms in Formica selysi

scientific article

Flexible social organization and high incidence of drifting in the sweat bee, Halictus scabiosae

scientific article

Foreign ant queens are accepted but produce fewer offspring

scientific article published on 12 July 2008

Foster carers influence brood pathogen resistance in ants

scientific article published in October 2014

Genetic analysis of the breeding system of an invasive subterranean termite, Reticulitermes santonensis, in urban and natural habitats.

scientific article published on April 2005

Genetic clusters and sex-biased gene flow in a unicolonial Formica ant ⬇️

scientific article

Genotyping faeces reveals facultative kin association on capercaillie’s leks

scholarly article by Sébastien Regnaut et al published 21 February 2006 in Conservation Genetics

Highly variable social organisation of colonies in the ant Formica cinerea

scientific article

Immune priming and pathogen resistance in ant queens

scientific article

Impact of helpers on colony productivity in a primitively eusocial bee

scientific article published in 2013

Inbreeding and sex-biased gene flow in the ant Formica exsecta.

scientific article

Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

scientific article published on March 2011

Long live the queen: studying aging in social insects

scientific article

Longevity differs among sexes but is not affected by repeated immune activation in voles (Microtus arvalis)

Low relatedness and frequent inter-nest movements in a eusocial sweat bee

article

MHC-genotype of progeny influenced by parental infection

scientific article published on 01 April 1998

MICROSATELLITES REVEAL HIGH POPULATION VISCOSITY AND LIMITED DISPERSAL IN THE ANT FORMICA PARALUGUBRIS.

scientific article published on April 1997

Male reproductive success: paternity contribution to queens and workers in Formica ants

scientific article published in 1997

Maternal effect killing by a supergene controlling ant social organization

scientific article published on 07 July 2020

Mating triggers dynamic immune regulations in wood ant queens

scientific article published on 17 December 2008

Microsatellite markers for Rhytidoponera metallica and other ponerine ants.

scientific article

Microsatellites Reveal High Population Viscosity and Limited Dispersal in the Ant Formica paralugubris

Nestmate recognition and levels of aggression are not altered by changes in genetic diversity in a socially polymorphic ant

Nestmate recognition and the genetic relatedness of nests in the ant Formica pratensis

article published in 1998

Nestmate recognition in the unicolonial ant Formica paralugubris

scientific article published in 2004

No Evidence for Moral Reward and Punishment in an Anonymous Context

scientific article

No evidence for immune priming in ants exposed to a fungal pathogen

scientific article

No evidence for social immunity in co-founding queen associations

scientific article

No mate preference associated with the supergene controlling social organization in Alpine silver ants

scientific article published on 09 May 2019

Non-random fertilization in mice correlates with the MHC and something else

scientific article published in October 1996

Prophylaxis with resin in wood ants

scientific article (publication date: April 2008)

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

scientific article

Putative determinants of virulence in Melissococcus plutonius, the bacterial agent causing European foulbrood in honey bees

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Queen acceptance in a socially polymorphic ant

article by Joël Meunier et al published January 2011 in Animal Behaviour

Sex allocation conflict in ants: when the queen rules.

scientific article published in February 2006

Sex ratio and Wolbachia infection in the ant Formica exsecta.

scientific article published in August 2001

Sex-ratio regulation: the economics of fratricide in ants.

scientific article

Sham nepotism as a result of intrinsic differences in brood viability in ants

scientific article published in August 2006

Social evolution: sick ants face death alone

scientific article published in February 2010

Social evolution: the smell of cheating.

scientific article

Social structure varies with elevation in an Alpine ant.

scientific article published on 10 January 2015

Split sex ratios in the social Hymenoptera: a meta-analysis

scholarly article by Joël Meunier et al published 10 January 2008 in Behavioral Ecology

Stay or drift? Queen acceptance in the ant Formica paralugubris

article by B. Holzer et al published 18 July 2008 in Insectes Sociaux

Taxonomic Status of Hylomys parvus and Hylomys suillus (Insectivora: Erinaceidae): Biochemical and Morphological Analyses

scientific article published in 1994

The determinants of queen size in a socially polymorphic ant.

scientific article published on 3 August 2009

The evolution of utility functions and psychological altruism

scientific article

The expression and impact of antifungal grooming in ants.

scientific article

The influence of social structure on brood survival and development in a socially polymorphic ant: insights from a cross-fostering experiment

scientific article published on 21 September 2012

The presence of conifer resin decreases the use of the immune system in wood ants

scientific article published in 2008

Transitions in social complexity along elevational gradients reveal a combined impact of season length and development time on social evolution

scientific article published in July 2014

Unbalanced selection: the challenge of maintaining a social polymorphism when a supergene is selfish

Unicoloniality, recognition and genetic differentiation in a native Formica ant.

scientific article published in November 2006

Variable queen number in ant colonies: no impact on queen turnover, inbreeding, and population genetic differentiation in the ant Formica selysi

scientific article published in May 2004

Winter is coming: harsh environments limit independent reproduction of cooperative-breeding queens in a socially polymorphic ant

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

Wood ants produce a potent antimicrobial agent by applying formic acid on tree-collected resin.

scientific article published on 06 March 2017

Wood ants protect their brood with tree resin

Wood ants use resin to protect themselves against pathogens

scientific article published in August 2007

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