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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Interspecific competition among ants in the boreal forest: Testing predictions from a linear hierarchical competition model
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Larval cannibalism and worker-induced separation of larvae in
Hypoponera
ants: a case of conflict over caste determination?
M. H. Rüger, J. Fröba and S. Foitzik
22-27
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Genetic structure of drone congregations of the stingless bee
Scaptotrigona mexicana
F. B. Kraus, S. Weinhold and R. F. A. Moritz
28-36
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Queen fecundity and reproductive skew in the termite
Nasutitermes corniger
E. S. Adams and L. Atkinson
37-42
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Simple rules based on pile slope are used in the self organization of sand pile formation by
Pheidole oxyops
ants
A. Tofilski and F. L. W. Ratnieks
43-50
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Diploid male production in a rare and locally distributed bumblebee,
Bombus florilegus
(Hymenoptera, Apidae)
J. Takahashi, T. Ayabe, M. Mitsuhata, I. Shimizu and M. Ono
51-53
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Copulatory wounds in the monandrous ant species
Formica japonica
(Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
Y. Kamimura
54-65
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Population genetic structure of the red imported fire ant,
Solenopsis invicta
, in Taiwan
C. C. Yang, D. DeWayne Shoemaker, W. J. Wu and C. J. Shih
66-73
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Colony interactions in
Reticulitermes grassei
population assessed by molecular genetic methods
T. Nobre, L. Nunes and D. E. Bignell
74-78
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Strong constraints to independent nesting in a facultatively social bee: quantifying the effects of enemies-at-the-nest
J. Zammit, K. Hogendoorn and M. P. Schwarz
79-85
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Queen replacement in African and European honey bee colonies with and without afterswarms
S. S. Schneider and G. DeGrandi-Hoffman
86-90
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Effects of natal and novel
Crithidia bombi
(Trypanosomatidae) infections on
Bombus terrestris
hosts
C. P. Yourth, M. J. F. Brown and P. Schmid-Hempel
91-97
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Polyandry in two South American harvester ants
R. G. Pol, J. Lopez de Casenave, H. Feldhaar, F. A. Milesi and J. Gadau
98-104
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Seasonal cycle of colony structure in the Ponerine ant
Pachycondyla chinensis
in western Japan (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
A. Gotoh and F. Ito
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International Union for the Study of Social Insects
Report of Secretary-General Joan M. Herbers