Publications
2011
Fouks B, d'Ettorre P, Nehring V. Brood adoption in the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex echinatior: adaptation or recognition noise? Insectes Sociaux 58: 479-485.Nehring, V., Evison, S. E. F., Santorelli, L. A., d'Ettorre, P. & Hughes, W.O.H. (in press): Kin-informative recognition cues in ants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278 1942-1948.
Bos, N., L. Grinsted & Holman, L. Wax on, wax off: Nest soil facilitates indirect transfer of recognition cues between ant nestmates. In press, PLoS One 6: e19435.
2010
Bos, N., Guerrieri, F. J. & d’Ettorre, P. 2010 Significance of chemical recognition cues is context dependent in ants. Anim. Behav. 80: 839-844.Holman, L. 2010 Queen pheromones: The chemical crown governing insect social life. Communicative and Integrative Biology 3: 1-3.
Holman, L., Dreier, S. & d'Ettorre, P. 2010 Selfish strategies and honest signalling: reproductive conflicts in ant queen associations. Proc. Roy. Soc. B 277: 2007-2015.
Stroeymeyt, N., Guerrieri, F. J., van Zweden, J. S. & d'Ettorre, P. 2010 Rapid Decision-Making with Side-Specific Perceptual Discrimination in Ants. PLoS ONE 5: e12377.
Dijkstra, M. B., van Zweden, J. S., Dirchsen, M. & Boomsma, J.J. 2010 Workers of Acromyrmex echinatior leafcutter ants police worker-laid eggs but not reproductive workers. Animal Behaviour 80: 487-495.
Guerrieri, F. J. & d'Ettorre, P. 2010 Associative learning in ants: conditioning of the maxilla-labium extension response in Camponotus aethiops. J Insect Physiol 56: 88-92.
d'Ettorre, P. & Lenoir, A. 2010 Nestmate Recognition. In Ant Ecology (eds. L. Lach, C. Parr & K. Abbott ), pp. 194-208. USA: Oxford University Press.
Holman, L., Dreier, S. & d'Ettorre, P. 2010 Selfish strategies and honest signalling: reproductive conflicts in ant queen associations. Proc. Roy. Soc. B 277: 2007-2015.
van Zweden, J. S., Brask, J. B., Christensen, J. H., Boomsma, J. J., Linksvayer, T. A. & d'Ettorre, P. 2010 Blending of heritable recognition cues among ant nestmates creates distinct colony gestalt odours but prevents within-colony nepotism. J. Evol. Biol. 23: 1498-1508.
van Zweden, J. S. & d’Ettorre, P. 2010 Nestmate recognition in social insects and the role of hydrocarbons. In Insect Hydrocarbons: Biology, Biochemistry and Chemical Ecology (eds. G. J. Blomquist & A. Bagnères ), pp. 222-243. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2009
Guerrieri, F. J., Nehring, V., Jørgensen, C. G., Nielsen, J., Galizia, C. G. & d'Ettorre, P. 2009 Ants recognize foes and not friends. Proc R Soc B 276: 2461-2468.Vogel, V., Pedersen, J. S., d'Ettorre, P., Lehmann, L. & Keller, L. 2009 Dynamics and genetic structure of Argentine ant supercolonies in their native range. Evolution 63: 1627-39.
Dreier, S. & D'Ettorre, P. 2009 Social context predicts recognition systems in ant queens. J. Evol. Biol. 22: 644-9.
van Zweden, J. S., Heinze, J., Boomsma, J. J. & d'Ettorre, P. 2009 Ant queen egg-marking signals: matching deceptive laboratory simplicity with natural complexity. PLoS ONE 4: e4718.
Heinze, J. & d'Ettorre, P. 2009 Honest and dishonest communication in social Hymenoptera. J. Exp. Biol. 212: 1775-9.
Kronauer, D. J. C., Schöning, C., d'Ettorre, P. & Boomsma, J.J. 2009 Colony fusion and worker reproduction after queen loss in army ants. Proc. Biol. Sci. : .
El-Showk, S., van Zweden, J. S., d'Ettorre, P. & Sundström, L. 2009 Are you my mother? Kin recognition in the ant Formica fusca. J. Evol. Biol. 23: 397-406.
van Zweden, J. S., Dreier, S. & d'Ettorre, P. 2009 Disentangling environmental and heritable nestmate recognition cues in a carpenter ant. J. Insect Physiol. 55: 159 - 164.
van Zweden, J. S. 2009 The evolution of honest queen pheromones in insect societies. Communicative & Integrative Biology 3: 1-3.
2008
d'Ettorre, P. & Moore, A.J. 2008 Chemical communication and the coordination of social interactions in insects. In Sociobiology of Communication (eds. P. d'Ettorre & D. P. Hughes ), pp. 81-97. : Oxford Scholarship Online Monographs.Guerrieri, F. J. & d'Ettorre, P. 2008 The mandible opening response: quantifying aggression elicited by chemical cues in ants. J Exp Biol 211: 1109-1113.
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, X., d'Ettorre, P., Akta, N., Eilenberg, J., Jones, G. R., Nash, D. R., Pedersen, J. S. & Boomsma, J.J. 2008 The evolution of invasiveness in garden ants. PLoS ONE 3: e3838.
Cremer, S., d'Ettorre, P., Drijfhout, F., Sledge, M. F., Turillazzi, S. & Heinze, J. 2008 Imperfect chemical female mimicry in males of the ant Cardiocondyla obscurior. Naturwissenschaften 95: 1101-1105.
2007
van Zweden, J. S., Fürst, M. A., Heinze, J. & d’Ettorre, P. 2007 Specialization in policing behaviour among workers of the ant Pachycondyla inversa. Proceedings B 274: 1421-1428.D'Ettorre, P. 2007 Evolution of sociality: you are what you learn. Curr. Biol. 17: R766-R768.
Dreier, S., van Zweden, J. S. & D'Ettorre, P. 2007 Long-term memory of individual identity in ant queens. Biol Lett. 3: 459-462.