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List of works by Madeleine Beekman

A Diverse Range of Novel RNA Viruses in Geographically Distinct Honey Bee Populations.

scientific article published on 17 May 2017

A mathematical model of foraging in a dynamic environment by trail-laying Argentine ants.

scientific article published on 10 April 2012

A non-policing honey bee colony (Apis mellifera capensis).

scientific article published on 21 September 2002

A parent-of-origin effect on honeybee worker ovary size

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A quantitative study of worker reproduction in queenright colonies of the Cape honey bee, Apis mellifera capensis

scientific article published on 13 May 2009

Amoeboid organism solves complex nutritional challenges

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An invasive social insect overcomes genetic load at the sex locus

scientific article published on 07 November 2016

Ancestral monogamy shows kin selection is key to the evolution of eusociality

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Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) use adaptable transportation networks to track changes in resource quality.

scientific article published on February 2017

Asexually produced Cape honeybee queens (Apis mellifera capensis) reproduce sexually

scientific article published on 20 July 2011

Can't see the colony for the bees: behavioural perspectives of biological individuality

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Conflict and major transitions - why we need true queens

scientific article published on 03 April 2019

Dance precision of Apis florea—clues to the evolution of the honeybee dance language?

scientific article published in 2008

Different bees, different needs: how nest-site requirements have shaped the decision-making processes in homeless honeybees (Apis spp.).

scientific article published in May 2018

Direct transmission by injection affects competition among RNA viruses in honeybees

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Does being multi-headed make you better at solving problems? A survey of Physarum-based models and computations

scientific article published on 22 May 2018

Ectothermic vertebrates are too cool to care: a response to comments on Beekman et al

scientific article published in May 2019

Effects of selection for honey bee worker reproduction on foraging traits.

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Food quality and the risk of light exposure affect patch-choice decisions in the slime mold Physarum polycephalum

scientific article published in January 2010

Genetic reincarnation of workers as queens in the Eastern honeybee Apis cerana

scientific article published on 23 July 2014

Honeybee workers use cues other than egg viability for policing

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Inheritance of thelytoky in the honey bee Apis mellifera capensis.

scientific article published on 14 January 2015

Intergenerational reproductive parasitism in a stingless bee.

scientific article published in October 2009

Irrational decision-making in an amoeboid organism: transitivity and context-dependent preferences.

scientific article published on 11 August 2010

Is Her Majesty at home?

scientific article published on 24 July 2004

Lack of interspecific parasitism between the dwarf honeybees Apis andreniformis and Apis florea

scientific article published in 2010

Maintenance and loss of heterozygosity in a thelytokous lineage of honey bees (Apis mellifera capensis).

scientific article published on 2 February 2012

Maternity of emergency queens in the Cape honey bee, Apis mellifera capensis.

scientific article published on 10 June 2010

Moving without a purpose: an experimental study of swarm guidance in the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera.

scientific article published on 27 March 2014

Nest defence in a stingless bee: What causes fighting swarms in Trigona carbonaria (Hymenoptera, Meliponini)?

scholarly article by R. Gloag et al published 18 July 2008 in Insectes Sociaux

No worker reproduction in the Australian stingless bee Trigona carbonaria Smith (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

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Noise improves collective decision-making by ants in dynamic environments.

scientific article published on 23 September 2009

Only full-sibling families evolved eusociality

scientific article published in Nature

Optimisation in a natural system: Argentine ants solve the Towers of Hanoi

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Parasitic honeybees get royal treatment

scientific article published in April 2000

Physarum inspires research beyond biomimetic algorithms: Reply to comments on "Does being multi-headed make you better at solving problems?"

scientific article published on 11 July 2019

Power over reproduction in social hymenoptera.

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Reproductive interference between honeybee species in artificial sympatry.

scientific article published on 24 February 2014

Selection against heteroplasmy explains the evolution of uniparental inheritance of mitochondria

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Selective sweeps of mitochondrial DNA can drive the evolution of uniparental inheritance

scientific article published on 01 August 2017

Sexual selection in hermaphrodites, sperm and broadcast spawners, plants and fungi.

scientific article published on October 2016

Slime mold uses an externalized spatial "memory" to navigate in complex environments

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Solving the Towers of Hanoi - how an amoeboid organism efficiently constructs transport networks

scientific article published on 10 January 2013

Speed-accuracy trade-offs during foraging decisions in the acellular slime mould Physarum polycephalum.

scientific article published on 8 September 2010

The brood parasite's guide to inclusive fitness theory

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

The costs and benefits of genetic heterogeneity in resistance against parasites in social insects.

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The costs of being male: are there sex-specific effects of uniparental mitochondrial inheritance?

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The effects of rearing temperature on developmental stability and learning and memory in the honey bee, Apis mellifera

scientific article published on 28 July 2005

The role of female dominance hierarchies in the mating behaviour of mosquitofish.

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The role of multiple pheromones in food recruitment by ants

scientific article published in August 2009

Thermodynamic constraints and the evolution of parental provisioning in vertebrates

scientific article published on 27 March 2019

Uniparental Inheritance Promotes Adaptive Evolution in Cytoplasmic Genomes.

scientific article published in March 2017

Viable Triploid Honey Bees () Are Reliably Produced in the Progeny of CO Narcotised Queens

scientific article published on 03 October 2018

Weird sex: the underappreciated diversity of sexual reproduction.

scientific article published on October 2016

What cost mitochondria? The maintenance of functional mitochondrial DNA within and across generations.

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Why acquiesce? Worker reproductive parasitism in the Eastern honeybee (Apis cerana).

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