All Outputs (3)

Queen pheromones: The chemical crown governing insect social life (2010)
Journal Article
Holman, L. (2010). Queen pheromones: The chemical crown governing insect social life. Communicative and Integrative Biology, 3(6), 558-560. https://doi.org/10.4161/cib.3.6.12976

Group-living species produce signals that alter the behavior and even the physiology of their social partners. Social insects possess especially sophisticated chemical communication systems that govern every aspect of colony life, including the defin... Read More about Queen pheromones: The chemical crown governing insect social life.

Identification of an ant queen pheromone regulating worker sterility (2010)
Journal Article
Holman, L., Jørgensen, C. G., Nielsen, J., & d'Ettorre, P. (2010). Identification of an ant queen pheromone regulating worker sterility. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277(1701), 3793-3800. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.0984

The selective forces that shape and maintain eusocial societies are an enduring puzzle in evolutionary biology. Ordinarily sterile workers can usually reproduce given the right conditions, so the factors regulating reproductive division of labour may... Read More about Identification of an ant queen pheromone regulating worker sterility.

Selfish strategies and honest signalling: reproductive conflicts in ant queen associations (2010)
Journal Article
Holman, L., Dreier, S., & d'Ettorre, P. (2010). Selfish strategies and honest signalling: reproductive conflicts in ant queen associations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277(1690), 2007-2015. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.23

Social insects offer unique opportunities to test predictions regarding the evolution of cooperation, life histories and communication. Colony founding by groups of unrelated queens, some of which are later killed, may select for selfish reproductive... Read More about Selfish strategies and honest signalling: reproductive conflicts in ant queen associations.