1-6
Review article
Physiology as a caste-defining feature
E. J. H. Robinson
7-13
Research article
The effect of juvenile hormone on temporal polyethism in the paper wasp
Polistes dominulus
J. R. Shorter and E. A. Tibbetts
14-20
Research article
Worker reproductive competition affects division of labor in a primitively social paperwasp (
Polistes instabilis
)
Y. Molina and S. O’Donnell
21-27
Research article
Energetics and development of incipient colonies of the harvester termite,
Trinervitermes trinervoides
(Sjöstedt) (Termitidae, Nasutitermitinae)
R. A. Adam and J. D. Mitchell
28-34
Research article
Physical contact between soldier and worker is essential in soldier self-regulation of
Coptotermes formosanus
(Isoptera, Rhinotermitidae)
S.-L. Dong, L. Mao and G. Henderson
35-39
Research article
Hypoxic conditions and oxygen supply in nests of the mangrove ant,
Camponotus anderseni
, during and after inundation
M. G. Nielsen, K. Christian and H. Malte
40-43
Reserach article
The ectoparasitic mite
Tropilaelaps mercedesae
(Acari, Laelapidae) as a vector of honeybee viruses
B. Dainat, T. Ken, H. Berthoud and P. Neumann
44-48
Reserach article
Construction and characterization of a BAC-library for a key pollinator, the bumblebee
Bombus terrestris
L.
L. Wilfert, M. Muñoz Torres, C. Reber-Funk, R. Schmid-Hempel and J. Tomkins, et al.
49-54
Research article
Colony cycle of a “temperate” hover wasp,
Eustenogaster nigra
, with special reference to overwintering of males in an enveloped nest together with virgin females (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Stenogastrinae)
F. Saito, L. T. P. Nguyen and J. Kojima
55-63
Research article
Complex sociogenetic organization and the origin of unrelated workers in a eusocial sweat bee,
Lasioglossum malachurum
A. Soro, M. Ayasse, M. U. Zobel and R. J. Paxton
64-69
Research article
Chill out: cooling promotes aggressive behavior in the ant
Formica xerophila
C. J. Tanner
70-76
Research article
Ontogenetic origin of mermithogenic
Myrmica
phenotypes (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
S. Csősz and G. Majoros
77-84
Research article
Lipid stores, ovary development, and brain gene expression in
Polistes metricus
females
A. L. Toth, K. B. J. Bilof, M. T. Henshaw, J. H. Hunt and G. E. Robinson
85-93
Research article
Physiological consequences of prolonged nursing in the honey bee
J. Wegener, M. W. Lorenz and K. Bienefeld
94-102
Research article
Multiple mating in the ant
Cataglyphis cursor:
testing the sperm limitation and the diploid male load hypotheses
M. Pearcy, I. Timmermans, D. Allard and S. Aron
103-105
Research article
Several workers lay eggs in the same brood cell in queenless honey bee (
Apis mellifera
) colonies
N. C. Chapman, M. Beekman and B. P. Oldroyd
106-108
Research article
Amphisexual care in
Acutisoma proximum
(Arachnida, Opiliones), a neotropical harvestman with exclusive maternal care
B. A. Buzatto and G. Machado
109
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