Transcriptomes of parents identify parenting strategies and sexual conflict in a subsocial beetle [PDF]
, 2015 This work was funded by UK NERC grants to M.G.R. and A.J.M. an NERC studentship to D.J.P. the University of Georgia and a US NSF grant to A.J.M. and M.G.R.Parenting in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides is complex and, unusually, the sex and ...
Cunningham, Christopher B. +8 more
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Balancing risk and opportunity: Nasute termite responses to predator and competitor chemical cues
Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.Nasutitermes corniger discriminates between heterospecific chemical cues during foraging, showing non‐random resource selection based on predator and competitor information. Predator chemical cues consistently reduce food resource selection, indicating avoidance driven by perceived predation risk rather than direct encounters.
Aline N. F. Silva +6 more
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Lack of aggression and apparent altruism towards intruders in a primitive termite [PDF]
, 2016 This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Royal Society via the DOI in this record.In eusocial insects, the ability to discriminate nestmates from non-nestmates is widespread and ensures that altruistic actions are ...
Cant, Michael A. +6 more
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Bee community and trait‐based responses to fire in a Mediterranean landscape
Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.Fire drives a short‐term increase in bee abundance and diversity, despite its strong negative impact on floral resources. Acting as an environmental filter, fire shapes bee communities as increased post‐fire fine‐scale heterogeneity favors bees with specific functional traits such as ground‐nesting and generalist species.
Georgios Nakas +8 more
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Bayesian and parsimony analyses based on morphological data reveal a new genus of spilomenine wasps (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Pemphredoninae) from Australia [PDF]
Zoologia (Curitiba)Pemphredoninae are a very large lineage of crabronid wasps with more than a thousand species. In this lineage, the subtribe Spilomenina stand out for containing the smallest apoid wasps and by exhibiting relatively complex social behavior such as female ...
Brunno B. Rosa, Gabriel A.R. Melo
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The Naked Mole-Rat: An Unusual Organism with an Unexpected Latent Potential for Increased Intelligence? [PDF]
, 2019 Naked mole-rats are eusocial, hairless mammals that are uniquely adapted to their harsh, low-oxygen subsurface habitat. Although their encephalization quotient, a controversial marker of intelligence, is low, they exhibit many features considered tell ...
Schulze-Makuch, Dirk
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Diet breadth shapes gut microbiota in the invasive hornet Vespa velutina
Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.Dietary and microbial profiles of V. velutina larvae are dominated by Apidae and Firmicutes, respectively. DNA metabarcoding of larval meconium and gut samples reveals a significant positive correlation between prey richness and bacterial diversity in the invasive hornet V. velutina. Multiple significant correlations exist between dietary and microbial
Cayetano Herrera +3 more
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Balancing Life History Investment Decisions in Founding Ant Queens
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Reproduction is a very critical step in the life of an organism. Females must balance their investment in different life-history traits while reproducing.
Simon Tragust +5 more
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Group-wise 3D registration based templates to study the evolution of ant worker neuroanatomy [PDF]
, 2017 The evolutionary success of ants and other social insects is considered to be intrinsically linked to division of labor and emergent collective intelligence.
Arganda, Sara +4 more
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Insect Molecular Biology, EarlyView.Comparison between developmental stages (larvae, pupae, worker) in Pogonomyrmex californicus revealed significant stage‐specific differences in Gene Body Methylated frequencies. Methylation sites were highly correlated between WGBS and ONT in P. californicus Genome‐wide methylation was low (~3%) and highly clustered within gene bodies (GBM), especially
Tania Chavarria‐Pizarro +4 more
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