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A Novel Method of Assessing Dominance Hierarchies Shows Nuance, Linearity and Stability in the Dinosaur AntDinoponera quadriceps

scholarly article by Daniel P. Grainger et al published 14 July 2014 in Ethology

A mechanistic framework to explain the immunosuppressive effects of neurotoxic pesticides on bees

article

Adaptive social immunity in leaf-cutting ants

scientific article published on May 2009

Alarm Pheromone Composition and Behavioral Activity in Fungus-Growing Ants.

scientific article published on 28 February 2017

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

scientific article

Ant farmers practice proactive personal hygiene to protect their fungus crop.

scientific article published in July 2010

Ant parasite queens revert to mating singly

scientific article published in March 2004

Antimicrobial defense shows an abrupt evolutionary transition in the fungus-growing ants.

scientific article published on 8 February 2008

Behavioural effects of juvenile hormone and their influence on division of labour in leaf-cutting ant societies

scientific article published on January 2016

Biogenic amines are associated with worker task but not patriline in the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex echinatior.

scientific article published on 27 September 2013

Both hygienic and non-hygienic honeybee, , colonies remove dead and diseased larvae from open brood cells

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Can alloethism in workers of the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, be explained in terms of foraging efficiency?

article

Colony growth of the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, in improved and conventional agricultural and suburban habitats

scientific article (publication date: 2002)

Cryptic lineages hybridize for worker production in the harvester ant Messor barbarus.

scientific article

Density-dependence and within-host competition in a semelparous parasite of leaf-cutting ants

scientific article

Digit Ratios and Dominance in Female Baboons (Papio hamadryas and Papio ursinus)

article

Discrimination of Unrewarding Flowers by Bees; Direct Detection of Rewards and Use of Repellent Scent Marks

article

Disease management in two sympatric <i>Apterostigma</i> fungus-growing ants for controlling the parasitic fungus <i>Escovopsis</i>

scientific article published on 02 May 2021

Disease resistance in a weaver ant, Polyrhachis dives, and the role of antibiotic-producing glands

scientific article (publication date: 24 August 2011)

Do managed bees drive parasite spread and emergence in wild bees?

scientific article

Effects of Optical Brighteners Used in Biopesticide Formulations on the Behavior of Pollinators

article

Effects of hive spacing, entrance orientation, and worker activity on nest relocation by honey bee queens

Emerging dangers: deadly effects of an emergent parasite in a new pollinator host

scientific article

Evidence for differential selection and potential adaptive evolution in the worker caste of an inquiline social parasite

article

Field evaluation of potential of alarm pheromone compounds to enhance baits for control of grass-cutting ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).

scientific article

Genetic caste polymorphism and the evolution of polyandry in Atta leaf-cutting ants.

scientific article published on 8 June 2011

Genetic diversity and disease resistance in leaf-cutting ant societies

scientific article published in June 2004

Genetic polymorphism in leaf-cutting ants is phenotypically plastic

scientific article published in July 2007

Genetic royal cheats in leaf-cutting ant societies

scholarly article

Genetic variability of the neogregarine Apicystis bombi, an etiological agent of an emergent bumblebee disease ⬇️

scientific article

Heritability of symbiont density reveals distinct regulatory mechanisms in a tripartite symbiosis

scientific article published on 26 February 2016

Host location by adult and larval codling moth and the potential for its disruption by the application of kairomones

scientific article published on 11 March 2003

Host-parasite genotypic interactions in the honey bee: the dynamics of diversity ⬇️

scientific article published on 06 June 2013

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

article

Hygienic food to reduce pathogen risk to bumblebees.

scientific article

Immunity of leaf-cutting ants and its role in host-parasitoid relationships

scientific article published on 20 April 2019

Immunosenescence and resistance to parasite infection in the honey bee, Apis mellifera

scientific article published on 19 June 2014

Inclusion and release of ant alarm pheromones from metal-organic frameworks

scientific article published on 21 July 2020

Innate expression of antimicrobial peptides does not explain genotypic diversity in resistance to fungal brood parasites in the honey bee

Kin-informative recognition cues in ants.

scientific article published in December 2010

Limited female dispersal predicts the incidence of Wolbachia across ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

scientific article published on 30 August 2019

Mitigating the anthropogenic spread of bee parasites to protect wild pollinators

article

Molecular signatures of plastic phenotypes in two eusocial insect species with simple societies

scientific article

Multiple gains and losses of Wolbachia symbionts across a tribe of fungus-growing ants.

scientific article

Multiple stressors interact to impair the performance of bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) colonies

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Numbers count: caste-specific component Allee effects and their interactions

scientific article published in September 2013

Nutritional limitation and resistance to opportunistic Aspergillus parasites in honey bee larvae

scientific article published on 26 June 2012

Only full-sibling families evolved eusociality

scientific article published in Nature

Parasites in bloom: flowers aid dispersal and transmission of pollinator parasites within and between bee species

scientific article published in August 2015

Pervasiveness of parasites in pollinators

scientific article

Pleiotropic effects of juvenile hormone in ant queens and the escape from the reproduction-immunocompetence trade-off

scientific article published in January 2016

Quality and quantity: transitions in antimicrobial gland use for parasite defense.

scientific article

Sexual selection in honey bees: colony variation and the importance of size in male mating success

scientific article published in 2010

Size and asymmetry: are there costs to winning the royalty race?

scientific article published on 13 January 2012

Specialization on pollen or nectar in bumblebee foragers is not associated with ovary size, lipid reserves or sensory tuning

scientific article published on 27 October 2016

Sperm mixing in the polyandrous leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex echinatior.

scientific article

Symbionts in excess? No correlation between symbiont density and the ability of mealybug hosts to exploit plant species or tolerate insecticide stress

article

Targeted agri-environment schemes significantly improve the population size of common farmland bumblebee species

scientific article published on 2 April 2015

Testing the reproductive groundplan hypothesis in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).

scientific article

The Trojan hives: pollinator pathogens, imported and distributed in bumblebee colonies ⬇️

article

The distribution of Aspergillus spp. opportunistic parasites in hives and their pathogenicity to honey bees

scientific article published on 11 December 2013

The effect of parasitism on personality in a social insect

scientific article published on 10 June 2018

The effects of single and mixed infections of Apicystis bombi and deformed wing virus in Bombus terrestris

scientific article

The relationship between managed bees and the prevalence of parasites in bumblebees

scientific article published in 2014

The role of juvenile hormone in regulating reproductive physiology and dominance in ants

article

Trade-offs in group living: transmission and disease resistance in leaf-cutting ants

scientific article published in September 2002

Waste management in the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex echinatior: the role of worker size, age and plasticity

article

Wolbachia in the flesh: symbiont intensities in germ-line and somatic tissues challenge the conventional view of Wolbachia transmission routes

scientific article

Worker caste polymorphism has a genetic basis in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants

scientific article

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