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2019 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 6552 | 
Cremer, Sylvia. “Social Immunity in Insects.” Current Biology. Elsevier, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.03.035.
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2019 | Book Chapter | IST-REx-ID: 7513
Cremer, Sylvia, and Megan Kutzer. “Social Immunity.” In Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, edited by Jae Choe, 2nd ed., 747–55. Elsevier, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.90721-0.
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2019 | Thesis | IST-REx-ID: 6435 |
Casillas Perez, Barbara E. “Collective Defenses of Garden Ants against a Fungal Pathogen.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2019. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:6435.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 413 |
Konrad, Matthias, Christopher Pull, Sina Metzler, Katharina Seif, Elisabeth Naderlinger, Anna V Grasse, and Sylvia Cremer. “Ants Avoid Superinfections by Performing Risk-Adjusted Sanitary Care.” PNAS. National Academy of Sciences, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713501115.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 616 |
Pull, Christopher, Line V Ugelvig, Florian Wiesenhofer, Anna V Grasse, Simon Tragust, Thomas Schmitt, Mark Brown, and Sylvia Cremer. “Destructive Disinfection of Infected Brood Prevents Systemic Disease Spread in Ant Colonies.” ELife. eLife Sciences Publications, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32073.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 617 |
Kutzer, Megan, Joachim Kurtz, and Sophie Armitage. “Genotype and Diet Affect Resistance, Survival, and Fecundity but Not Fecundity Tolerance.” Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Wiley, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13211.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 426
Metzler, Sina, Alexandra Schrempf, and Jürgen Heinze. “Individual- and Ejaculate-Specific Sperm Traits in Ant Males.” Journal of Insect Physiology. Elsevier, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2017.12.003.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 194 |
Liutkeviciute, Zita, Esther Gil Mansilla, Thomas Eder, Barbara E Casillas Perez, Maria Giulia Di Giglio, Edin Muratspahić, Florian Grebien, et al. “Oxytocin-like Signaling in Ants Influences Metabolic Gene Expression and Locomotor Activity.” The FASEB Journal. FASEB, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.201800443.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 55 |
Pull, Christopher, Sina Metzler, Elisabeth Naderlinger, and Sylvia Cremer. “Protection against the Lethal Side Effects of Social Immunity in Ants.” Current Biology. Cell Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.063.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 29 |
Viljakainen, Lumi, Jaana Jurvansuu, Ida Holmberg, Tobias Pamminger, Silvio Erler, and Sylvia Cremer. “Social Environment Affects the Transcriptomic Response to Bacteria in Ant Queens.” Ecology and Evolution. Wiley, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4573.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 806
Cremer, Sylvia, Christopher Pull, and Matthias Fürst. “Social Immunity: Emergence and Evolution of Colony-Level Disease Protection.” Annual Review of Entomology. Annual Reviews, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-020117-043110.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 7 |
Stroeymeyt, Nathalie, Anna V Grasse, Alessandro Crespi, Danielle Mersch, Sylvia Cremer, and Laurent Keller. “Social Network Plasticity Decreases Disease Transmission in a Eusocial Insect.” Science. AAAS, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat4793.
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2018 | Research Data Reference | IST-REx-ID: 13055 |
Stroeymeyt, Nathalie, Anna V Grasse, Alessandro Crespi, Danielle Mersch, Sylvia Cremer, and Laurent Keller. “Social Network Plasticity Decreases Disease Transmission in a Eusocial Insect.” Zenodo, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.1322669.
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2017 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1006 |
Greenwood, Jenny, Barbara Milutinovic, Robert Peuß, Sarah Behrens, Daniela Essar, Philip Rosenstiel, Hinrich Schulenburg, and Joachim Kurtz. “Oral Immune Priming with Bacillus Thuringiensis Induces a Shift in the Gene Expression of Tribolium Castaneum Larvae.” BMC Genomics. BioMed Central, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-3705-7.
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2017 | Research Data Reference | IST-REx-ID: 9859 |
Greenwood, Jenny, Barbara Milutinovic, Robert Peuß, Sarah Behrens, Daniela Essar, Philip Rosenstiel, Hinrich Schulenburg, and Joachim Kurtz. “Additional File 1: Table S1. of Oral Immune Priming with Bacillus Thuringiensis Induces a Shift in the Gene Expression of Tribolium Castaneum Larvae.” Springer Nature, 2017. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3756974_d1.v1.
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2017 | Research Data Reference | IST-REx-ID: 9860 |
Greenwood, Jenny, Barbara Milutinovic, Robert Peuß, Sarah Behrens, Daniela Essar, Philip Rosenstiel, Hinrich Schulenburg, and Joachim Kurtz. “Additional File 5: Table S3. of Oral Immune Priming with Bacillus Thuringiensis Induces a Shift in the Gene Expression of Tribolium Castaneum Larvae.” Springer Nature, 2017. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3756974_d5.v1.
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2017 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 914 |
Giehr, Julia, Anna V Grasse, Sylvia Cremer, Jürgen Heinze, and Alexandra Schrempf. “Ant Queens Increase Their Reproductive Efforts after Pathogen Infection.” Royal Society Open Science. Royal Society, The, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170547.
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2017 | Research Data Reference | IST-REx-ID: 9853 |
Giehr, Julia, Anna V Grasse, Sylvia Cremer, Jürgen Heinze, and Alexandra Schrempf. “Raw Data from Ant Queens Increase Their Reproductive Efforts after Pathogen Infection.” The Royal Society, 2017. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5117788.v1.
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2017 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 734 |
Kennedy, Patrick, Gemma Baron, Bitao Qiu, Dalial Freitak, Heikki Helantera, Edmund Hunt, Fabio Manfredini, et al. “Deconstructing Superorganisms and Societies to Address Big Questions in Biology.” Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Cell Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2017.08.004.
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2017 | Thesis | IST-REx-ID: 819 |
Pull, Christopher. “Disease Defence in Garden Ants.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2017. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_861.
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2017 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 732 |
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.
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2017 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 459 |
Cremer, Sylvia. “Invasive Ameisen in Europa: Wie Sie Sich Ausbreiten Und Die Heimische Fauna Verändern.” Rundgespräche Forum Ökologie. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, 2017.
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2017 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 558
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.
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2016 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1184 |
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.
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2016 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1202 |
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.
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2016 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1255 |
Peuß, Robert, Kristina Wensing, Luisa Woestmann, Hendrik Eggert, Barbara Milutinovic, Marlene Sroka, Jörn Scharsack, Joachim Kurtz, and Sophie Armitage. “Down Syndrome Cell Adhesion Molecule 1: Testing for a Role in Insect Immunity, Behaviour and Reproduction.” Royal Society Open Science. Royal Society, The, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160138.
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2016 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1268
Milutinovic, Barbara, and Joachim Kurtz. “Immune Memory in Invertebrates.” Seminars in Immunology. Academic Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smim.2016.05.004.
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2016 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1431 |
Tartally, András, Andreas Kelager, Matthias Fürst, and David Nash. “Host Plant Use Drives Genetic Differentiation in Syntopic Populations of Maculinea Alcon.” PeerJ. PeerJ, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1865.
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2016 | Research Data Reference | IST-REx-ID: 9720 |
Mcmahon, Dino, Matthias Fürst, Jesicca Caspar, Panagiotis Theodorou, Mark Brown, and Robert Paxton. “Data from: A Sting in the Spit: Widespread Cross-Infection of Multiple RNA Viruses across Wild and Managed Bees.” Dryad, 2016. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.4b565.
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2016 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1262 |
Mcmahon, Dino, Myrsini Natsopoulou, Vincent Doublet, Matthias Fürst, Silvio Weging, Mark Brown, Andreas Gogol Döring, and Robert Paxton. “Elevated Virulence of an Emerging Viral Genotype as a Driver of Honeybee Loss.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences. Royal Society, The, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0811.
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2016 | Research Data Reference | IST-REx-ID: 9704 |
Mcmahon, Dino, Myrsini Natsopoulou, Vincent Doublet, Matthias Fürst, Silvio Weging, Mark Brown, Andreas Gogol Döring, and Robert Paxton. “Data from: Elevated Virulence of an Emerging Viral Genotype as a Driver of Honeybee Loss.” Dryad, 2016. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cq7t1.
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2015 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1551 |
El Masri, Leila, Antoine Branca, Anna Sheppard, Andrei Papkou, David Laehnemann, Patrick Guenther, Swantje Prahl, et al. “Host–Pathogen Coevolution: The Selective Advantage of Bacillus Thuringiensis Virulence and Its Cry Toxin Genes.” PLoS Biology. Public Library of Science, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002169.
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2015 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1548 |
Milutinovic, Barbara, Christina Höfling, Momir Futo, Jörn Scharsack, and Joachim Kurtz. “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, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02051-15.
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2015 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1831 |
Kappeler, Peter, Sylvia Cremer, and Charles Nunn. “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, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0116.
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2015 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1850 |
Novak, Sebastian, and Sylvia Cremer. “Fungal Disease Dynamics in Insect Societies: Optimal Killing Rates and the Ambivalent Effect of High Social Interaction Rates.” Journal of Theoretical Biology. Elsevier, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.02.018.
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2015 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1855 |
Mcmahon, Dino, Matthias Fürst, Jesicca Caspar, Panagiotis Theodorou, Mark Brown, and Robert Paxton. “A Sting in the Spit: Widespread Cross-Infection of Multiple RNA Viruses across Wild and Managed Bees.” Journal of Animal Ecology. Wiley, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12345.
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2015 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1830 |
Theis, Fabian, Line V Ugelvig, Carsten Marr, and Sylvia Cremer. “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, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0108.
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2015 | Research Data Reference | IST-REx-ID: 9721 |
Theis, Fabian, Line V Ugelvig, Carsten Marr, and Sylvia Cremer. “Data from: Opposing Effects of Allogrooming on Disease Transmission in Ant Societies.” Dryad, 2015. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.dj2bf.
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2015 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1993 |
Konrad, Matthias, Anna V Grasse, Simon Tragust, and Sylvia Cremer. “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, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1976.
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2015 | Research Data Reference | IST-REx-ID: 9742 |
Westhus, Claudia, Line V Ugelvig, Edouard Tourdot, Jürgen Heinze, Claudie Doums, and Sylvia Cremer. “Data from: Increased Grooming after Repeated Brood Care Provides Sanitary Benefits in a Clonal Ant.” Dryad, 2015. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7kc79.
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2014 | Thesis | IST-REx-ID: 1404
Stock, Miriam. “Evolution of a Fungal Pathogen towards Individual versus Social Immunity in Ants.” IST Austria, 2014.
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2014 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1905
Tobler, Michael, Martin Plath, Rüdiger Riesch, Ingo Schlupp, Anna V Grasse, Gopi Munimanda, C Setzer, Dustin Penn, and Yoshan Moodley. “Selection from Parasites Favours Immunogenetic Diversity but Not Divergence among Locally Adapted Host Populations.” Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Wiley, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12370.
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2014 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1998
El Masri, Leila, and Sylvia Cremer. “Individual and Social Immunisation in Insects.” Trends in Immunology. Elsevier, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.it.2014.08.005.
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2014 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 2235 |
Fürst, Matthias, Dino Mcmahon, Juliet Osborne, Robert Paxton, and Mark Brown. “Disease Associations between Honeybees and Bumblebees as a Threat to Wild Pollinators.” Nature. Nature Publishing Group, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12977.
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2014 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 2086 |
Wolf, Stephan, Dino Mcmahon, Ka Lim, Christopher Pull, Suzanne Clark, Robert Paxton, and Juliet Osborne. “So near and yet so Far: Harmonic Radar Reveals Reduced Homing Ability of Nosema Infected Honeybees.” PLoS One. Public Library of Science, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103989.
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2014 | Research Data Reference | IST-REx-ID: 9888
Wolf, Stephan, Dino Mcmahon, Ka Lim, Christopher Pull, Suzanne Clark, Robert Paxton, and Juliet Osborne. “Supporting Information.” Public Library of Science, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103989.s003.
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2014 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 2161
Westhus, Claudia, Line V Ugelvig, Edouard Tourdot, Jürgen Heinze, Claudie Doums, and Sylvia Cremer. “Increased Grooming after Repeated Brood Care Provides Sanitary Benefits in a Clonal Ant.” Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. Springer, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-014-1778-8.
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2014 | Research Data Reference | IST-REx-ID: 9740 |
Konrad, Matthias, Anna V Grasse, Simon Tragust, and Sylvia Cremer. “Data from: Anti-Pathogen Protection versus Survival Costs Mediated by an Ectosymbiont in an Ant Host.” Dryad, 2014. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.vm0vc.
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2014 | Research Data Reference | IST-REx-ID: 9753 |
Tragust, Simon, Line V Ugelvig, Michel Chapuisat, Jürgen Heinze, and Sylvia Cremer. “Data from: Pupal Cocoons Affect Sanitary Brood Care and Limit Fungal Infections in Ant Colonies.” Dryad, 2014. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.nc0gc.
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2014 | Thesis | IST-REx-ID: 1395
Konrad, Matthias. “Immune Defences in Ants: Effects of Social Immunisation and a Fungal Ectosymbiont in the Ant Lasius Neglectus.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2014.
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