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92 Publications
2016 | Research Data Reference | IST-REx-ID: 9704 | 
Mcmahon, D., Natsopoulou, M., Doublet, V., Fürst, M., Weging, S., Brown, M., … Paxton, R. (2016). Data from: Elevated virulence of an emerging viral genotype as a driver of honeybee loss. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cq7t1
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2015 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1551 |
El Masri, L., Branca, A., Sheppard, A., Papkou, A., Laehnemann, D., Guenther, P., … Schulenburg, H. (2015). Host–pathogen coevolution: The selective advantage of Bacillus thuringiensis virulence and its cry toxin genes. PLoS Biology. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002169
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2015 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1548 |
Milutinovic, B., Höfling, C., Futo, M., Scharsack, J., & Kurtz, J. (2015). Infection of Tribolium castaneum with Bacillus thuringiensis: Quantification of bacterial replication within cadavers, transmission via cannibalism, and inhibition of spore germination. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. American Society for Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02051-15
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2015 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1831 |
Kappeler, P., Cremer, S., & Nunn, C. (2015). Sociality and health: Impacts of sociality on disease susceptibility and transmission in animal and human societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. Royal Society. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0116
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2015 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1850 |
Novak, S., & Cremer, S. (2015). Fungal disease dynamics in insect societies: Optimal killing rates and the ambivalent effect of high social interaction rates. Journal of Theoretical Biology. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.02.018
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2015 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1855 |
Mcmahon, D., Fürst, M., Caspar, J., Theodorou, P., Brown, M., & Paxton, R. (2015). A sting in the spit: Widespread cross-infection of multiple RNA viruses across wild and managed bees. Journal of Animal Ecology. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12345
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2015 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1830 |
Theis, F., Ugelvig, L. V., Marr, C., & Cremer, S. (2015). Opposing effects of allogrooming on disease transmission in ant societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. Royal Society, The. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0108
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2015 | Research Data Reference | IST-REx-ID: 9721 |
Theis, F., Ugelvig, L. V., Marr, C., & Cremer, S. (2015). Data from: Opposing effects of allogrooming on disease transmission in ant societies. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.dj2bf
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2015 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1993 |
Konrad, M., Grasse, A. V., Tragust, S., & Cremer, S. (2015). Anti-pathogen protection versus survival costs mediated by an ectosymbiont in an ant host. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences. The Royal Society. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1976
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2015 | Research Data Reference | IST-REx-ID: 9742 |
Westhus, C., Ugelvig, L. V., Tourdot, E., Heinze, J., Doums, C., & Cremer, S. (2015). Data from: Increased grooming after repeated brood care provides sanitary benefits in a clonal ant. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7kc79
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2014 | Thesis | IST-REx-ID: 1404
Stock, M. (2014). Evolution of a fungal pathogen towards individual versus social immunity in ants. IST Austria.
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2014 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1905
Tobler, M., Plath, M., Riesch, R., Schlupp, I., Grasse, A. V., Munimanda, G., … Moodley, Y. (2014). Selection from parasites favours immunogenetic diversity but not divergence among locally adapted host populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12370
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2014 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1998
El Masri, L., & Cremer, S. (2014). Individual and social immunisation in insects. Trends in Immunology. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.it.2014.08.005
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2014 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 2235 |
Fürst, M., Mcmahon, D., Osborne, J., Paxton, R., & Brown, M. (2014). Disease associations between honeybees and bumblebees as a threat to wild pollinators. Nature. Nature Publishing Group. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12977
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2014 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 2086 |
Wolf, S., Mcmahon, D., Lim, K., Pull, C., Clark, S., Paxton, R., & Osborne, J. (2014). So near and yet so far: Harmonic radar reveals reduced homing ability of Nosema infected honeybees. PLoS One. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103989
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2014 | Research Data Reference | IST-REx-ID: 9888
Wolf, S., Mcmahon, D., Lim, K., Pull, C., Clark, S., Paxton, R., & Osborne, J. (2014). Supporting information. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103989.s003
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2014 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 2161
Westhus, C., Ugelvig, L. V., Tourdot, E., Heinze, J., Doums, C., & Cremer, S. (2014). Increased grooming after repeated brood care provides sanitary benefits in a clonal ant. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-014-1778-8
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2014 | Research Data Reference | IST-REx-ID: 9740 |
Konrad, M., Grasse, A. V., Tragust, S., & Cremer, S. (2014). Data from: Anti-pathogen protection versus survival costs mediated by an ectosymbiont in an ant host. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.vm0vc
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2014 | Research Data Reference | IST-REx-ID: 9753 |
Tragust, S., Ugelvig, L. V., Chapuisat, M., Heinze, J., & Cremer, S. (2014). Data from: Pupal cocoons affect sanitary brood care and limit fungal infections in ant colonies. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.nc0gc
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2014 | Thesis | IST-REx-ID: 1395
Konrad, M. (2014). Immune defences in ants: Effects of social immunisation and a fungal ectosymbiont in the ant Lasius neglectus. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
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2014 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1887 |
Cremer, S. (2014). Gemeinsame Krankheitsabwehr in Ameisengesellschaften. Zoologie. Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft.
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2014 | Book Chapter | IST-REx-ID: 1888
Cremer, S. (2014). Soziale Immunität: Wie sich der Staat gegen Pathogene wehrt Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. In Soziale Insekten in einer sich wandelnden Welt (Vol. 43, pp. 65–72). Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil.
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2014 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1999
Stroeymeyt, N., Casillas Perez, B. E., & Cremer, S. (2014). Organisational immunity in social insects. Current Opinion in Insect Science. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2014.09.001
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2013 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 2283
Pull, C., Hughes, W., & Brown, M. (2013). Tolerating an infection: an indirect benefit of co-founding queen associations in the ant Lasius niger . Naturwissenschaften. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-013-1115-5
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2013 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 2284 |
Tragust, S., Ugelvig, L. V., Chapuisat, M., Heinze, J., & Cremer, S. (2013). Pupal cocoons affect sanitary brood care and limit fungal infections in ant colonies. BMC Evolutionary Biology. BioMed Central. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-225
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2013 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 2926
Tragust, S., Mitteregger, B., Barone, V., Konrad, M., Ugelvig, L. V., & Cremer, S. (2013). Ants disinfect fungus-exposed brood by oral uptake and spread of their poison. Current Biology. Cell Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.11.034
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2012 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 2938
Ugelvig, L. V., & Cremer, S. (2012). Effects of social immunity and unicoloniality on host parasite interactions in invasive insect societies. Functional Ecology. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12013
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2012 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 2966 |
Cremer, S., Suefuji, M., Schrempf, A., & Heinze, J. (2012). The dynamics of male-male competition in Cardiocondyla obscurior ants. BMC Ecology. BioMed Central. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-12-7
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2012 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 3132
Konrad, M., Pamminger, T., & Foitzik, S. (2012). Two pathways ensuring social harmony. Naturwissenschaften. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-012-0943-z
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2012 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 3161 |
Vyleta, M., Wong, J., & Magun, B. (2012). Suppression of ribosomal function triggers innate immune signaling through activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome. PLoS One. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036044
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2012 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 3156
Ugelvig, L. V., Andersen, A., Boomsma, J., & Nash, D. (2012). Dispersal and gene flow in the rare parasitic Large Blue butterfly Maculinea arion. Molecular Ecology. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05592.x
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2012 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 3242 |
Konrad, M., Vyleta, M., Theis, F., Stock, M., Tragust, S., Klatt, M., … Cremer, S. (2012). Social transfer of pathogenic fungus promotes active immunisation in ant colonies. PLoS Biology. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001300
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2012 | Research Data Reference | IST-REx-ID: 9755 |
Konrad, M., Vyleta, M., Theis, F., Stock, M., Klatt, M., Drescher, V., … Cremer, S. (2012). Data from: Social transfer of pathogenic fungus promotes active immunisation in ant colonies. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.sv37s
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2012 | Research Data Reference | IST-REx-ID: 9757 |
Tragust, S., Mitteregger, B., Barone, V., Konrad, M., Ugelvig, L. V., & Cremer, S. (2012). Data from: Ants disinfect fungus-exposed brood by oral uptake and spread of their poison. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.61649
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2011 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 3388 |
Ugelvig, L. V., Nielsen, P., Boomsma, J., & Nash, D. (2011). Reconstructing eight decades of genetic variation in an isolated Danish population of the large blue butterfly Maculinea arion. BMC Evolutionary Biology. BioMed Central. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-11-201
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2011 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 3386
Schrempf, A., Cremer, S., & Heinze, J. (2011). Social influence on age and reproduction reduced lifespan and fecundity in multi queen ant colonies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02278.x
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2011 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 3399 |
Cremer, S., Schrempf, A., & Heinze, J. (2011). Competition and opportunity shape the reproductive tactics of males in the ant Cardiocondyla obscurior. PLoS One. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017323
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