--- _id: '732' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Background: Social insects form densely crowded societies in environments with high pathogen loads, but have evolved collective defences that mitigate the impact of disease. However, colony-founding queens lack this protection and suffer high rates of mortality. The impact of pathogens may be exacerbated in species where queens found colonies together, as healthy individuals may contract pathogens from infectious co-founders. Therefore, we tested whether ant queens avoid founding colonies with pathogen-exposed conspecifics and how they might limit disease transmission from infectious individuals. Results: Using Lasius Niger queens and a naturally infecting fungal pathogen Metarhizium brunneum, we observed that queens were equally likely to found colonies with another pathogen-exposed or sham-treated queen. However, when one queen died, the surviving individual performed biting, burial and removal of the corpse. These undertaking behaviours were performed prophylactically, i.e. targeted equally towards non-infected and infected corpses, as well as carried out before infected corpses became infectious. Biting and burial reduced the risk of the queens contracting and dying from disease from an infectious corpse of a dead co-foundress. Conclusions: We show that co-founding ant queens express undertaking behaviours that, in mature colonies, are performed exclusively by workers. Such infection avoidance behaviours act before the queens can contract the disease and will therefore improve the overall chance of colony founding success in ant queens.' article_number: '219' article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original author: - first_name: Christopher full_name: Pull, Christopher id: 3C7F4840-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pull orcid: 0000-0003-1122-3982 - first_name: Sylvia full_name: Cremer, Sylvia id: 2F64EC8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Cremer orcid: 0000-0002-2193-3868 citation: ama: Pull C, Cremer S. Co-founding ant queens prevent disease by performing prophylactic undertaking behaviour. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 2017;17(1). doi:10.1186/s12862-017-1062-4 apa: Pull, C., & Cremer, S. (2017). Co-founding ant queens prevent disease by performing prophylactic undertaking behaviour. BMC Evolutionary Biology. BioMed Central. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-1062-4 chicago: Pull, Christopher, and Sylvia Cremer. “Co-Founding Ant Queens Prevent Disease by Performing Prophylactic Undertaking Behaviour.” BMC Evolutionary Biology. BioMed Central, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-1062-4. ieee: C. Pull and S. Cremer, “Co-founding ant queens prevent disease by performing prophylactic undertaking behaviour,” BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol. 17, no. 1. BioMed Central, 2017. ista: Pull C, Cremer S. 2017. Co-founding ant queens prevent disease by performing prophylactic undertaking behaviour. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17(1), 219. mla: Pull, Christopher, and Sylvia Cremer. “Co-Founding Ant Queens Prevent Disease by Performing Prophylactic Undertaking Behaviour.” BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol. 17, no. 1, 219, BioMed Central, 2017, doi:10.1186/s12862-017-1062-4. short: C. Pull, S. Cremer, BMC Evolutionary Biology 17 (2017). date_created: 2018-12-11T11:48:12Z date_published: 2017-10-13T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-28T11:31:32Z day: '13' ddc: - '576' - '592' department: - _id: SyCr doi: 10.1186/s12862-017-1062-4 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000412816800001' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 3e24a2cfd48f49f7b3643d08d30fb480 content_type: application/pdf creator: system date_created: 2018-12-12T10:17:18Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:55Z file_id: '5271' file_name: IST-2017-882-v1+1_12862_2017_Article_1062.pdf file_size: 949857 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:55Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 17' isi: 1 issue: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 25DC711C-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '243071' name: 'Social Vaccination in Ant Colonies: from Individual Mechanisms to Society Effects' publication: BMC Evolutionary Biology publication_identifier: issn: - '14712148' publication_status: published publisher: BioMed Central publist_id: '6937' pubrep_id: '882' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '819' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Co-founding ant queens prevent disease by performing prophylactic undertaking behaviour tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 17 year: '2017' ... --- _id: '459' abstract: - lang: eng text: The social insects bees, wasps, ants, and termites are species-rich, occur in many habitats, and often constitute a large part of the biomass. Many are also invasive, including species of termites, the red imported fire ant, and the Argentine ant. While invasive social insects have been a problem in Southern Europe for some time, Central Europa was free of invasive ant species until recently because most ants are adapted to warmer climates. Only in the 1990s, did Lasius neglectus, a close relative of the common black garden ant, arrive in Germany. First described in 1990 based on individuals collected in Budapest, the species has since been detected for example in France, Germany, Spain, England, and Kyrgyzstan. The species is spread with soil during construction work or plantings, and L. neglectus therefore is often found in parks and botanical gardens. Another invasive ant now spreading in southern Germany is Formica fuscocinerea, which occurs along rivers, including in the sandy floodplains of the river Isar. As is typical of pioneer species, F. fuscocinerea quickly becomes extremely abundant and therefore causes problems for example on playgrounds in Munich. All invasive ant species are characterized by cooperation across nests, leading to strongly interconnected, very large super-colonies. The resulting dominance results in the extinction of native ant species as well as other arthropod species and thus in the reduction of biodiversity. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Sylvia full_name: Cremer, Sylvia id: 2F64EC8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Cremer orcid: 0000-0002-2193-3868 citation: ama: 'Cremer S. Invasive Ameisen in Europa: Wie sie sich ausbreiten und die heimische Fauna verändern. Rundgespräche Forum Ökologie. 2017;46:105-116.' apa: 'Cremer, S. (2017). Invasive Ameisen in Europa: Wie sie sich ausbreiten und die heimische Fauna verändern. Rundgespräche Forum Ökologie. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil.' chicago: 'Cremer, Sylvia. “Invasive Ameisen in Europa: Wie Sie Sich Ausbreiten Und Die Heimische Fauna Verändern.” Rundgespräche Forum Ökologie. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, 2017.' ieee: 'S. Cremer, “Invasive Ameisen in Europa: Wie sie sich ausbreiten und die heimische Fauna verändern,” Rundgespräche Forum Ökologie, vol. 46. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, pp. 105–116, 2017.' ista: 'Cremer S. 2017. Invasive Ameisen in Europa: Wie sie sich ausbreiten und die heimische Fauna verändern. Rundgespräche Forum Ökologie. 46, 105–116.' mla: 'Cremer, Sylvia. “Invasive Ameisen in Europa: Wie Sie Sich Ausbreiten Und Die Heimische Fauna Verändern.” Rundgespräche Forum Ökologie, vol. 46, Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, 2017, pp. 105–16.' short: S. Cremer, Rundgespräche Forum Ökologie 46 (2017) 105–116. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:35Z date_published: 2017-04-04T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-10-17T12:28:13Z day: '04' ddc: - '592' department: - _id: SyCr file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 4919baf9050415ca151fe22497379f78 content_type: application/pdf creator: system date_created: 2018-12-12T10:15:52Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:32Z file_id: '5175' file_name: IST-2018-962-v1+1_044676698_07_Cremer__Invasive_Ameisen_in_Europa_...__BY-ND_.pdf file_size: 1711131 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:32Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 46' language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 105 - 116 publication: Rundgespräche Forum Ökologie publication_identifier: issn: - 2366-2875 publication_status: published publisher: Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil publist_id: '7362' pubrep_id: '962' quality_controlled: '1' status: public title: 'Invasive Ameisen in Europa: Wie sie sich ausbreiten und die heimische Fauna verändern' tmp: image: /image/cc_by_nd.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) short: CC BY-ND (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 46 year: '2017' ... --- _id: '558' abstract: - lang: eng text: Immune specificity is the degree to which a host’s immune system discriminates among various pathogens or antigenic variants. Vertebrate immune memory is highly specific due to antibody responses. On the other hand, some invertebrates show immune priming, i.e. improved survival after secondary exposure to a previously encountered pathogen. Until now, specificity of priming has only been demonstrated via the septic infection route or when live pathogens were used for priming. Therefore, we tested for specificity in the oral priming route in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum. For priming, we used pathogen-free supernatants derived from three different strains of the entomopathogen, Bacillus thuringiensis, which express different Cry toxin variants known for their toxicity against this beetle. Subsequent exposure to the infective spores showed that oral priming was specific for two naturally occurring strains, while a third engineered strain did not induce any priming effect. Our data demonstrate that oral immune priming with a non-infectious bacterial agent can be specific, but the priming effect is not universal across all bacterial strains. article_number: '0632' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Momir full_name: Futo, Momir last_name: Futo - first_name: Marie full_name: Sell, Marie last_name: Sell - first_name: Megan full_name: Kutzer, Megan id: 29D0B332-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kutzer orcid: 0000-0002-8696-6978 - first_name: Joachim full_name: Kurtz, Joachim last_name: Kurtz citation: ama: Futo M, Sell M, Kutzer M, Kurtz J. Specificity of oral immune priming in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Biology Letters. 2017;13(12). doi:10.1098/rsbl.2017.0632 apa: Futo, M., Sell, M., Kutzer, M., & Kurtz, J. (2017). Specificity of oral immune priming in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Biology Letters. The Royal Society. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0632 chicago: Futo, Momir, Marie Sell, Megan Kutzer, and Joachim Kurtz. “Specificity of Oral Immune Priming in the Red Flour Beetle Tribolium Castaneum.” Biology Letters. The Royal Society, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0632. ieee: M. Futo, M. Sell, M. Kutzer, and J. Kurtz, “Specificity of oral immune priming in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum,” Biology Letters, vol. 13, no. 12. The Royal Society, 2017. ista: Futo M, Sell M, Kutzer M, Kurtz J. 2017. Specificity of oral immune priming in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Biology Letters. 13(12), 0632. mla: Futo, Momir, et al. “Specificity of Oral Immune Priming in the Red Flour Beetle Tribolium Castaneum.” Biology Letters, vol. 13, no. 12, 0632, The Royal Society, 2017, doi:10.1098/rsbl.2017.0632. short: M. Futo, M. Sell, M. Kutzer, J. Kurtz, Biology Letters 13 (2017). date_created: 2018-12-11T11:47:10Z date_published: 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-10-18T06:42:25Z day: '01' department: - _id: SyCr doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0632 external_id: pmid: - '29237813' intvolume: ' 13' issue: '12' language: - iso: eng month: '12' oa_version: None pmid: 1 publication: Biology Letters publication_identifier: issn: - 1744-9561 publication_status: published publisher: The Royal Society publist_id: '7255' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Specificity of oral immune priming in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 13 year: '2017' ... --- _id: '1184' abstract: - lang: eng text: Across multicellular organisms, the costs of reproduction and self-maintenance result in a life history trade-off between fecundity and longevity. Queens of perennial social Hymenoptera are both highly fertile and long-lived, and thus, this fundamental trade-off is lacking. Whether social insect males similarly evade the fecundity/longevity trade-off remains largely unstudied. Wingless males of the ant genus Cardiocondyla stay in their natal colonies throughout their relatively long lives and mate with multiple female sexuals. Here, we show that Cardiocondyla obscurior males that were allowed to mate with large numbers of female sexuals had a shortened life span compared to males that mated at a low frequency or virgin males. Although frequent mating negatively affects longevity, males clearly benefit from a “live fast, die young strategy” by inseminating as many female sexuals as possible at a cost to their own survival. acknowledgement: 'German Science Foundation. Grant Number: SCHR 1135/2-1. We thank M. Adam for handling part of the setups and J. Zoellner for behavioral observations.' author: - first_name: Sina full_name: Metzler, Sina id: 48204546-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Metzler - first_name: Jürgen full_name: Heinze, Jürgen last_name: Heinze - first_name: Alexandra full_name: Schrempf, Alexandra last_name: Schrempf citation: ama: Metzler S, Heinze J, Schrempf A. Mating and longevity in ant males. Ecology and Evolution. 2016;6(24):8903-8906. doi:10.1002/ece3.2474 apa: Metzler, S., Heinze, J., & Schrempf, A. (2016). Mating and longevity in ant males. Ecology and Evolution. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2474 chicago: Metzler, Sina, Jürgen Heinze, and Alexandra Schrempf. “Mating and Longevity in Ant Males.” Ecology and Evolution. Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2474. ieee: S. Metzler, J. Heinze, and A. Schrempf, “Mating and longevity in ant males,” Ecology and Evolution, vol. 6, no. 24. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 8903–8906, 2016. ista: Metzler S, Heinze J, Schrempf A. 2016. Mating and longevity in ant males. Ecology and Evolution. 6(24), 8903–8906. mla: Metzler, Sina, et al. “Mating and Longevity in Ant Males.” Ecology and Evolution, vol. 6, no. 24, Wiley-Blackwell, 2016, pp. 8903–06, doi:10.1002/ece3.2474. short: S. Metzler, J. Heinze, A. Schrempf, Ecology and Evolution 6 (2016) 8903–8906. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:50:36Z date_published: 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:48:55Z day: '01' ddc: - '576' - '592' department: - _id: SyCr doi: 10.1002/ece3.2474 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 789026eb9e1be2a0da08376f29f569cf content_type: application/pdf creator: system date_created: 2018-12-12T10:14:12Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:44:37Z file_id: '5062' file_name: IST-2017-736-v1+1_Metzler_et_al-2016-Ecology_and_Evolution.pdf file_size: 328414 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:44:37Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 6' issue: '24' language: - iso: eng month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 8903 - 8906 publication: Ecology and Evolution publication_status: published publisher: Wiley-Blackwell publist_id: '6169' pubrep_id: '736' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Mating and longevity in ant males tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 6 year: '2016' ... --- _id: '1202' acknowledgement: The authors thank Sophie A.O. Armitage and Jan N. Offenborn for helpful comments on the figures, and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. The project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, KU 1929/4-2) within the priority programme SPP 1399 “Host–Parasite Coevolution”. author: - first_name: Barbara full_name: Milutinovic, Barbara id: 2CDC32B8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Milutinovic orcid: 0000-0002-8214-4758 - first_name: Robert full_name: Peuß, Robert last_name: Peuß - first_name: Kevin full_name: Ferro, Kevin last_name: Ferro - first_name: Joachim full_name: Kurtz, Joachim last_name: Kurtz citation: ama: 'Milutinovic B, Peuß R, Ferro K, Kurtz J. Immune priming in arthropods: an update focusing on the red flour beetle. Zoology . 2016;119(4):254-261. doi:10.1016/j.zool.2016.03.006' apa: 'Milutinovic, B., Peuß, R., Ferro, K., & Kurtz, J. (2016). Immune priming in arthropods: an update focusing on the red flour beetle. Zoology . Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2016.03.006' chicago: 'Milutinovic, Barbara, Robert Peuß, Kevin Ferro, and Joachim Kurtz. “Immune Priming in Arthropods: An Update Focusing on the Red Flour Beetle.” Zoology . Elsevier, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2016.03.006.' ieee: 'B. Milutinovic, R. Peuß, K. Ferro, and J. Kurtz, “Immune priming in arthropods: an update focusing on the red flour beetle,” Zoology , vol. 119, no. 4. Elsevier, pp. 254–261, 2016.' ista: 'Milutinovic B, Peuß R, Ferro K, Kurtz J. 2016. Immune priming in arthropods: an update focusing on the red flour beetle. Zoology . 119(4), 254–261.' mla: 'Milutinovic, Barbara, et al. “Immune Priming in Arthropods: An Update Focusing on the Red Flour Beetle.” Zoology , vol. 119, no. 4, Elsevier, 2016, pp. 254–61, doi:10.1016/j.zool.2016.03.006.' short: B. Milutinovic, R. Peuß, K. Ferro, J. Kurtz, Zoology 119 (2016) 254–261. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:50:41Z date_published: 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:49:03Z day: '01' ddc: - '570' department: - _id: SyCr doi: 10.1016/j.zool.2016.03.006 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 8396d5bd95f9c4295857162f902afabf content_type: application/pdf creator: kschuh date_created: 2019-01-25T13:00:20Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:44:39Z file_id: '5885' file_name: 2016_Elsevier_Milutinovic.pdf file_size: 1473211 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:44:39Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 119' issue: '4' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 254 - 261 project: - _id: 25DAF0B2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: CR-118/3-1 name: Host-Parasite Coevolution publication: 'Zoology ' publication_status: published publisher: Elsevier publist_id: '6147' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: 'Immune priming in arthropods: an update focusing on the red flour beetle' tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc_nd.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) short: CC BY-NC-ND (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 119 year: '2016' ...