List of works - Florian Menzel

Acclimation in ants: Interference of communication and waterproofing through cuticular hydrocarbons in a multifunctional trait

scientific article published in 2022

Adhesion enhancement of cribellate capture threads by epicuticular waxes of the insect prey sheds new light on spider web evolution.

scientific article published in May 2017

Change of mechanical characteristics in spider silk capture threads after contact with prey

scientific article published in 2022

Communication versus waterproofing: the physics of insect cuticular hydrocarbons

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Coping with the climate: Cuticular hydrocarbon acclimation of ants under constant and fluctuating conditions.

scientific article published on 3 April 2018

Cuticular hydrocarbons as potential mediators of cryptic species divergence in a mutualistic ant association

scientific article published on 21 July 2019

Digging Deeper into the Ecology of Subterranean Ants: Diversity and Niche Partitioning across Two Continents

scientific article published on 29 January 2021

Extreme lifespan extension in tapeworm-infected ant workers

scientific article published on 19 May 2021

How do cuticular hydrocarbons evolve? Physiological constraints and climatic and biotic selection pressures act on a complex functional trait.

scientific article published in March 2017

Influence of Mutualistic Lifestyle, Mutualistic Partner, and Climate on Cuticular Hydrocarbon Profiles in Parabiotic Ants

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Less overall, but more of the same: drivers of insect population trends lead to community homogenization

scientific article published in 2023

Little parallelism in genomic signatures of local adaptation in two sympatric, cryptic sister species

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Mesostigmatid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) on rainforest tree trunks: arboreal specialists, but substrate generalists?

scientific article published in January 2006

Niche differentiation in rainforest ant communities across three continents

scientific article published on 17 July 2019

Non-consumptive effects between predators depend on the foraging mode of intraguild prey

scientific article published on 30 March 2020

Queen and worker phenotypic traits are associated with colony composition and environment in Temnothorax rugatulus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), an ant with alternative reproductive strategies

journal article

The evolution of a complex trait: cuticular hydrocarbons in ants evolve independent from phylogenetic constraints.

scientific article

The influence of slavemaking lifestyle, caste and sex on chemical profiles in Temnothorax ants: insights into the evolution of cuticular hydrocarbons.