Guerrieri F.J., Nehring V., Jørgensen C.G., Nielsen J., Galizia C.G., d’Ettorre P. (in press). Ants recognize foes and not friends. Proc. R. Soc. London B
Dreier S., d’Ettorre P. (in press). Social context predicts recognition systems in ant queens. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Vogel V., Pedersen J.S., d’Ettorre P., Lehmann L., Keller L. (in press). Dynamics and genetic structure of Argentine ant supercolonies in their native range. Evolution
van Zweden J.S., Heinze J., Boomsma J.J. and d’Ettorre P. (2009). Ant queen egg-marking signals: matching deceptive laboratory simplicity with natural complexity, PLoS ONE 4, e4718
van Zweden J., Dreier S., d’Ettorre P. (2009). Disentangling environmental and heritable nestmate recognition cues in a carpenter ant. Journal of Insect Physiology 55, 158-163
d’Ettorre P. (2008). Multiple levels of recognition in ants: a feature of complex societies. Special issue “Emergence of Social Behaviour”, Biological Theory 2, 108-113
Cremer S., Ugelvig L.V., Drijfhout F.P., Schlick-Steiner B.C., Steiner F.M., Seifert B., Hughes D.P., Schulz A., Petersen K.S., Konrad H., Stauffer C., Kiran K., Espadaler, d’Ettorre P., Aktaç N., Eilenberg J., Jones G.R., Nash D.R., Pedersen J.S., J. Boomsma J.J. (2008). The Evolution of Invasiveness in Garden Ants. PLoS ONE 3, e3838
Cremer S, d’Ettorre P., Drijfhout F. P., Sledge M.F., Turillazzi S., Heinze J. (2008). Imperfect chemical female mimicry in males of the ant Cardiocondyla obscurior. Naturwissenschaften 95, 1101-1105
Guerrieri F.G., d’Ettorre P. (2008). The mandible opening response: quantifying aggression elicited by chemical cues in ants. Journal Experimental Biology 211, 1109-1113
d’Ettorre P. (2007) You are what you learn. Current Biology, 17, R766-767.
Dreier S., van Zweden J.S. and d’Ettorre P. (2007) Long term memory of individual identity in ant queens. Biology Letters 3, 459–462.
Kellner K., Trindl A., Heinze J., and d’Ettorre P. (2007) Polygyny and polyandry in small ant societies. Molecular Ecology 16, 2363–2369.
Foitzik S., Sturm H., Pusch K., d’Ettorre P. and Heinze J. (2007) Nestmate recognition and intraspecific chemical and genetic variation in Temnothorax ants. Animal Behaviour, 73, 999-1007.
Beibl J., d’Ettorre P. and Heinze J. (2007) Cuticular profiles and mating preference in a slave-making ant. Insectes Sociaux 54, 174 – 182
van Zweden J.S., Fürst M.A., Heinze J. and d’Ettorre P. (2007) Specialization in policing behaviour among workers of the ant Pachycondyla inversa. Proc. R. Soc. London B 274, 1421-1428.
d'Ettorre, P., Tofilski, A., Heinze, J. and Ratnieks, F.L.W. (2006) Non-transferable signals on ant queen eggs. Naturwissenschaften 93, 136-140.
d’Ettorre P., Wenseleers T., Dawson J., Hutchinson S., Boswell T. and Ratnieks F.L.W. (2006) Wax combs mediate nestmate recognition by guard honey bees. Animal Behaviour. 71, 773-779.
d'Ettorre, P. and Heinze, J. (2005) Individual recognition in ant queens. Current Biology 15, 2170-2174.
Brunner, E., Trindl, A., Falk, K.H., Heinze, J. and d'Ettorre, P. (2005) Reproductive conflict in social insects: Male production by workers in a slave-making ant. Evolution 59, 2480-2482.
d'Ettorre P., Kellner K., Delabie, J. and Heinze J. (2005) Number of queens in founding associations of the ponerine ant Pachycondyla villosa. Insectes Sociaux. 52, 327-332.
Hartmann A., d'Ettorre P., Jones G and Heinze J. (2005) Fertility signalling: the proximate mechanism of worker policing in the clonal ant Platythyrea punctata. Naturwissenshaften 92, 282-286.
Buschinger A., Beibl J. and d’Ettorre P. (2004) Recent records of Myrmicinosporidium durum Hölldobler, 1933, an enigmatic fungal parasite of ants. Myrmecologischen Nachrichten 6, 9-12.
d’Ettorre P., Brunner E., Wenseleers T. and Heinze J. (2004) Knowing your enemies: a test of the acceptance threshold model in a host-social parasite system. Naturwissenshaften 91, 594-597.
d'Ettorre P. , Heinze J. and Ratnieks F.L.W (2004) Worker policing by egg eating in the ponerine ant Pachycondyla inversa. Proc. R Soc. London B, 271, 1427-1434.
Trindl A., Heinze J. and d’Ettorre P. (2004) Isolation and characterization of five microsatellite loci in the ponerine ant Pachycondyla inversa (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Mol Biol Notes, 4, 583-585.
d’Ettorre P., Heinze J., Schulz C., Francke W. and Ayasse M. (2004) Does she smell like a queen? Chemoreception of a cuticular hydrocarbon signal in the ant Pachycondyla inversa. J. Exp. Biol. 207, 1085-1091
Souza D.J., Della Lucia T.M. Errard, C., d'Ettorre P. and Jean Luc Mercier J.L (2003) Brood recognition by workers of Acromyrmex laticeps nigrosetosus Forel, 1908 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Cienc Rural.33: 91-95.
d’Ettorre P., Mondy N., Lenoir A. and Errard C. (2002) Blending in with the crowd: social parasites integrate into their host colonies using a flexible chemical signature. Proc R. Soc. B 269: 1911-1918
d'Ettorre P., Mora P., Dibangou V., Rouland C. and Errard C. (2002) The role of symbiotic fungus in the digestive metabolism of two species of fungus-growing ants. J. Comp Physiol B, 172: 169-176
d'Ettorre P. and Heinze J. (2001) Sociobiology of slave-making ant. Acta Ethologica, 3: 67-82 (review paper).
Lenoir A., d'Ettorre P., Errard C. and Hefetz A. (2001) Chemical ecology and social parasitism in ants. Annual Review of Entomology, 46: 573-99 (review paper).
d’Ettorre P., Errard C., Ibarra F., Francke W. and Hefetz A. (2000) Sneak in or repel your enemy: Dufour’s gland repellent as a strategy for successful usurpation in the slave-maker Polyergus rufescens. Chemoecology 10: 135-142.
d’Ettorre P., Mori A. & Le Moli F., 1997 - Haplometrotic colony founding by the slave-making ant Polyergus rufescens Latr. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Italian Journal of Zoology 64: 49-53.
Mori A., d’Ettorre P. & Le Moli F., 1996 - Selective acceptance of parasitic brood by hosts in the evolution of slavery in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insectes Sociaux 43: 391-400.
Mori A., d’Ettorre P. & Le Moli F., 1995 - Host nest usurpation and colony foundation in the European amazon ant, Polyergus rufescens (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insectes Sociaux 42: 279-286.
Mori A., Grasso D.A., d’Ettorre P. & Le Moli F., 1994 - Specificity in host choice by the slave-making ant Polyergus rufescens Latr. (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Ethology Ecology & Evolution, Special Issue 3: 89-93.
Grasso D.A., Mori A., d’Ettorre P. & Le Moli F., 1994 - Intraspecific raids and territoriality in Polyergus rufescens Latr. (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Ethology Ecology & Evolution, Special Issue 3: 81-87.
Mori A., d’Ettorre P. & Le Moli F., 1994 - Mating and post-mating behaviour of the European amazon ant, Polyergus rufescens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Bollettino di Zoologia (Italian Journal of Zoology) 61: 203-206.
Le Moli F., Grasso D.A., d’Ettorre P. & Mori A., 1993 - Intraspecific slavery in Polyergus rufescens Latr. (Hymenoptera Formicidae): field and laboratory observations. Insectes Sociaux 40: 433-437.