Structurally diverse queen pheromones and fertility signals regulate the reproductive
division of labor of social insects, such as ants, termites, some bees, and some wasps. The …

Pathogens can influence the physiology and behavior of both animal and plant hosts in a
manner that promotes their own transmission and dispersal. Recent research focusing on …

Pollinator diversity and abundance in North America have been at a steep decline over the
last two decades due to the combinatorial effects of several environmental and …

Phenotypic plasticity, the ability of an organism to alter its phenotype in response to an
environmental cue, facilitates rapid adaptation to changing environments. Plastic changes in …

In the highly eusocial wasp, Vespula vulgaris, queens produce honest signals to alert their
subordinate workers of their fertility status, and therefore they are reproductively suppressed …

In social Hymenoptera, fertility and fertility signalling are often under identical hormonal
control, and it has been suggested that such hormonal pleiotropies can help to maintain …

Social insects demonstrate adaptive behaviour for a given colony size. Remarkably, most
species do this even without visual information in a dark environment. However, how they …

An ant colony is the epitome of social organization where up to millions of individuals
cooperate to survive, compete, and reproduce as a single superorganism, Female members …

Compression has been presented as a general principle of animal communication. Zipf's
Law of brevity is a manifestation of this postulate and can be generalized as the tendency of …

The evolutionary origin of queen pheromones (QPs), which regulate reproductive division of
labor in insect societies, has been explained by two evolutionary scenarios: the sender …