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A New Classification of the Dictyostelids

scientific article published on 24 November 2017

A Search for Parent-of-Origin Effects on Honey Bee Gene Expression

scientific article published on 5 June 2015

A bacterial symbiont is converted from an inedible producer of beneficial molecules into food by a single mutation in the gacA gene

scientific article

A conserved extraordinarily long serine homopolymer in Dictyostelid amoebae

scientific article published on 02 October 2013

A linear dominance hierarchy among clones in chimeras of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

A new social gene in Dictyostelium discoideum, chtB.

scientific article

A selfish strategy of social insect workers that promotes social cohesion

scientific article published in Nature

ADULT YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS FACE IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS AT THE NEST

article by Michelle E. Afkhami & Joan E. Strassmann published December 2007 in The Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Age Is More Important Than Size in Determining Dominance Among Workers in the Primitively Eusocial Wasp, Polistes Instabilis

Aggression and worker control of caste fate in a multiple-queen wasp, Parachartergus colobopterus

article by Thomas G Platt et al published January 2004 in Animal Behaviour

Altruism and relatedness at colony foundation in social insects ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 1989

Altruism and social cheating in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

scientific article (publication date: December 2000)

Amino acid repeats cause extraordinary coding sequence variation in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

scientific article

An Analysis of the Interrelationships among Nest Variables in Polistes exclamans (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

An invitation to die: initiators of sociality in a social amoeba become selfish spores

scientific article

An unusually low microsatellite mutation rate in Dictyostelium discoideum, an organism with unusually abundant microsatellites

scientific article

Ancient bacteria-amoeba relationships and pathogenic animal bacteria

scientific article

Ancient conservation of trinucleotide microsatellite loci in polistine wasps.

scientific article published in October 1998

Animal behaviour: rank crime and punishment

scientific article published in November 2004

Bacterial cheaters

Beyond society: the evolution of organismality

scientific article

Burkholderia bacteria infectiously induce the proto-farming symbiosis of Dictyostelium amoebae and food bacteria

scientific article

Burkholderia bacteria use chemotaxis to find social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum hosts

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN SOCIAL INSECTS: MALE PRODUCTION IN TWO SPECIES OF POLISTES.

scientific article published in June 1998

Can cuticular lipids provide sufficient information for within-colony nepotism in wasps?

scientific article published in April 2004

Caste totipotency and conflict in a large-colony social insect

scientific article published in February 2002

Cheater-resistance is not futile

scientific article published in Nature

Cheating does not explain selective differences at high and low relatedness in a social amoeba

scientific article

Co-occurrence in nature of different clones of the social amoeba, Dictyostelium discoideum

scientific article published in April 2003

Collection and Cultivation of Dictyostelids from the Wild ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Colony Defense in the Social Wasp, Parachartergus colobopterus

Comparative genomics of the social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum and Dictyostelium purpureum

scientific article

Concurrent coevolution of intra-organismal cheaters and resisters

scientific article published on 28 March 2015

Cooperation among unrelated individuals: the ant foundress case

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

Cooperation and conflict in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Costs and benefits of colony aggregation in the social wasp, Polistes annularis

scientific article published in 1991

DNA methylation is widespread across social Hymenoptera

scientific article published in April 2008

Demographic and genetic evidence for cyclical changes in queen number in a neotropical wasp, Polybia emaciata

scientific article

Dictyostelia

scientific article published in 2017

Dictyostelium development shows a novel pattern of evolutionary conservation

scientific article published on 16 January 2013

Discovery of a large clonal patch of a social amoeba: implications for social evolution

scientific article published on 20 February 2009

Diversity of Free-Living Environmental Bacteria and Their Interactions With a Bactivorous Amoeba

scholarly article by Debra A Brock et al published 2018 in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

Does evolutionary theory need a rethink?

scientific article

Early Termination of Brood Rearing in the Social Wasp, Polistes annularis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Empowering 21st Century Biology

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Endosymbiotic adaptations in three new bacterial species associated with Dictyostelium discoideum: Paraburkholderia agricolaris sp. nov., Paraburkholderia hayleyella sp. nov., and Paraburkholderia bonniea sp. nov

scientific article published on 22 May 2020

Eusociality ⬇️

scientific article published on November 11, 2003

Evolution of cooperation and control of cheating in a social microbe

scientific article

Evolution of microbial markets

scientific article published on 13 January 2014

Evolutionary implications of early male and satellite nest production in Polistes exclamans colony cycles

article

Experimental evolution of multicellularity using microbial pseudo-organisms

scientific article published on 26 September 2012

Exploiting new terrain: an advantage to sociality in the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum

scientific article published in 2007

Exposure to dense bacteria lawns does not cause the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum to carry bacteria through the social stage

Exposure to dense bacteria lawns does not cause the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum to carry bacteria through the social stage

scholarly article published 5 January 2017

FEMALE-BIASED SEX RATIOS IN SOCIAL INSECTS LACKING MORPHOLOGICAL CASTES.

scientific article published in March 1984

Facultative cheater mutants reveal the genetic complexity of cooperation in social amoebae

scientific article

Family quarrels in seeds and rapid adaptive evolution in Arabidopsis

scientific article published on 25 April 2019

Fine-scale spatial ecology drives kin selection relatedness among cooperating amoebae

scientific article published in March 2016

Fitness costs and benefits vary for two facultative Burkholderia symbionts of the social amoeba, Dictyostelium discoideum

scientific article published on 15 August 2019

Foundress Mortality after Worker Emergence in Social Wasps (Polistes)

Fruiting bodies of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum increase spore transport by Drosophila

scientific article

Genetic and behavioral conflict over male production between workers and queens in the stingless bee Paratrigona subnuda

scientific article published in 2002

Genetic conflicts and intercellular heterogeneity

scientific article published in November 2004

Genetic diversity in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum: population differentiation and cryptic species

scientific article

Genetic relatedness and incipient eusociality in stenogastrine wasps

Genetic signatures of microbial altruism and cheating in social amoebas in the wild.

scientific article published on 5 March 2018

Genome nucleotide composition shapes variation in simple sequence repeats

scientific article published on 13 October 2010

Genomic signatures of cooperation and conflict in the social amoeba.

scientific article

Gerontocracy in the social wasp, Polistes exclamans

Group Colony Foundation in Polistes Annularis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

scientific article

Hamiltonian Biology, from Microbes to God

High relatedness in a social amoeba: the role of kin-discriminatory segregation

scientific article published on 22 February 2012

High relatedness is necessary and sufficient to maintain multicellularity in Dictyostelium

scientific article

High relatedness maintains multicellular cooperation in a social amoeba by controlling cheater mutants

scientific article

How social evolution theory impacts our understanding of development in the social amoeba Dictyostelium

scientific article published on May 2011

In the light of evolution V: cooperation and conflict

scientific article

In the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, density, not farming status, determines predatory success on unpalatable Escherichia coli.

scientific article

Insect societies as divided organisms: the complexities of purpose and cross-purpose

scientific article

Insights and opportunities in insect social behavior

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Joan E. Strassmann

scientific article published in November 2008

Kin Discrimination in Dictyostelium Social Amoebae

scientific article

Kin discrimination and cooperation in microbes

scientific article published on January 2011

Kin discrimination and possible cryptic species in the social amoeba Polysphondylium violaceum

scientific article

Kin discrimination in the tropical swarm-founding wasp, Parachartergus colobopterus

Kin discrimination increases with genetic distance in a social amoeba

scientific article

Kin selection

scientific article published on 01 December 2002

Kin selection and eusociality

scientific article published in Nature

Loss of the polyketide synthase StlB results in stalk cell overproduction in Polysphondylium violaceum

scientific article published on 09 May 2020

Male production in stingless bees: variable outcomes of queen-worker conflict

scientific article

Measuring Cheating, Fitness, and Segregation in Dictyostelium discoideum ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 January 2013

Microsatellites and kinship

scientific article

Migration in the social stage of Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae impacts competition

scientific article published on 22 October 2015

Mind the gap: a comparative study of migratory behavior in social amoebae

scientific article published in 2012

Models of cooperation

scientific article published in September 2006

On status badges and quality signals in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus: body size, facial colour patterns and hierarchical rank.

scientific article published in May 2008

PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG PAPER WASP SOCIAL PARASITES AND THEIR HOSTS (HYMENOPTERA: VESPIDAE; POLISTINAE)

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POPULATION STRUCTURE AND KINSHIP IN POLISTES (HYMENOPTERA, VESPIDAE): AN ANALYSIS USING RIBOSOMAL DNA AND PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS.

scientific article

Parasitoids, Predators, and Group Size in the Paper Wasp, Polistes Exclamans

article

Phylogeny, reproductive isolation and kin recognition in the social amoeba Dictyostelium purpureum

scientific article

Phylogeography and sexual macrocyst formation in the social amoeba Dictyostelium giganteum

scientific article

Physical variability among nest foundresses in the polygynous social wasp, Polistes annularis

scientific article published in 1984

Pleiotropy as a mechanism to stabilize cooperation

scientific article published in October 2004

Polistes dominulus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) larvae show different cuticular patterns according to their sex: workers seem not use this chemical information

scientific article published on 15 January 2009

Polymorphic members of the lag gene family mediate kin discrimination in Dictyostelium

scientific article

Polymorphic microsatellite loci for primitively eusocial Stenogastrine wasps

scientific article published in 2000

Predator-by-Environment Interactions Mediate Bacterial Competition in the Dictyostelium discoideum Microbiome.

scientific article

Primitive agriculture in a social amoeba

scientific article

Privatization and property in biology

Problems of multi-species organisms: endosymbionts to holobionts

Queen Succession in the Social Wasp, Polistes annularis

article by Colin R. Hughes et al published 26 April 2010 in Ethology

Queens, not workers, produce the males in the stingless bee Schwarziana quadripunctata quadripunctata

Relatedness and altruism in Polistes wasps

article

Relatedness and queen number in the Neotropical wasp, Parachartergus colobopterus

article by Joan E. Strassmann et al published September 1991 in Animal Behaviour

Segregate or cooperate- a study of the interaction between two species of Dictyostelium

scientific article

Selfish responses by clone invaders

scientific article

Sentinel cells, symbiotic bacteria and toxin resistance in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

scientific article

Sex ratio and gamete size across eastern North America in Dictyostelium discoideum, a social amoeba with three sexes

scientific article

Single-gene greenbeard effects in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

scientific article

Social amoeba farmers carry defensive symbionts to protect and privatize their crops

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Social and Genetic Structure of Paper Wasp Cofoundress Associations: Tests of Reproductive Skew Models

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Social and genetic structure of paper wasp cofoundress associations: tests of reproductive skew models

scientific article published on June 1998

Social evolution: ant eggs lacking totipotency

scientific article published in April 2008

Social evolution: early production of deadly males by competing queens

scientific article published in December 2006

Social evolution: kin preference in a social microbe

scientific article

Social parasites in polistine wasps are monophyletic: implications for sympatric speciation

scientific article published in 1994

Structured growth and genetic drift raise relatedness in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

scientific article published on 4 July 2012

Symbiont location, host fitness, and possible coadaptation in a symbiosis between social amoebae and bacteria

scientific article published on 31 December 2018

Synergistic activity of cosecreted natural products from amoebae-associated bacteria ⬇️

scientific article published on 28 March 2018

Testing the kinship theory of intragenomic conflict in honey bees (Apis mellifera).

scientific article published on 11 January 2016

The Cost of Queen Loss in the Social Wasp Polistes dominulus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

scientific article (publication date: October 2004)

The costs and benefits of being a chimera.

scientific article

The genetic structure of swarms and the timing of their production in the queen cycles of neotropical wasps

article by Joan E. Strassmann et al published June 1998 in Molecular Ecology

The many selves of social insects

scientific article

The phylogeny of the social wasp subfamily Polistinae: evidence from microsatellite flanking sequences, mitochondrial COI sequence, and morphological characters

scientific article

The queen is not a pacemaker in the small-colony wasps Polistes instabilis and P. dominulus

article by Shalene Jha et al published May 2006 in Animal Behaviour

The rate and effects of spontaneous mutation on fitness traits in the social amoeba, Dictyostelium discoideum

scientific article published on 8 July 2013

The role of queens in colonies of the swarm-founding wasp Parachartergus colobopterus

scientific article published in April 2000

The social organism: congresses, parties, and committees

scientific article published on 22 January 2010

The social parasite wasp Polistes atrimandibularis does not form host races

scientific article published in September 2005

The specificity of Burkholderia symbionts in the social amoeba farming symbiosis: Prevalence, species, genetic and phenotypic diversity

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

The veil of ignorance can favour biological cooperation

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Tribute to Tinbergen: The Place of Animal Behavior in Biology

Trinucleotide microsatellite loci and increased heterozygosity in cross-species applications in the social wasp, Polistes

scientific article published in August 1997

Unicolonial ants: where do they come from, what are they and where are they going?

scientific article published on 26 March 2009

Unrelated helpers in a social insect.

scientific article published in June 2000

Variation, sex, and social cooperation: molecular population genetics of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

scientific article published in July 2010

Weak queen or social contract?

scientific article published in Nature

Which phenotypic traits of Dictyostelium discoideum farmers are conferred by their bacterial symbionts?

Whole genome sequencing of mutation accumulation lines reveals a low mutation rate in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

scientific article

Why wasp foundresses change nests: relatedness, dominance, and nest quality

scientific article published in 2012

Wild Dictyostelium discoideum social amoebae show plastic responses to the presence of nonrelatives during multicellular development

scientific article published on 28 January 2020

Worker interests and male production in Polistes gallicus, a Mediterranean social wasp

scientific article

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