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Publications of Anna Dornhaus and other lab members
in press
Huang MH, Dornhaus A 2008 ‘Are ant social parasites always closely related to their hosts? Host characteristics in different parasitism types and a test of Emery’s rule’ Ecological Entomology in press

2008
Kulahci IG, Dornhaus A, Papaj D 2008 ‘Multimodal signals enhance decision-making in bumblebees’ Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences published online January 2008

2007
Franks NR, Hooper JW, Gumn M, Bridger TH, Marshall JAR, Groß R, Dornhaus A 2007 ‘Moving targets: collective decisions and flexible choices in house-hunting ants’ Swarm Intelligence 1: 81-94

Franks, N. R., Hooper, J. W., Dornhaus, A., Aukett, P. J., Hayward, A. L., Berghoff, S., 2007. “Reconnaissance and latent learning in ants”. Proc R Soc B 274: 1505-1509 @Roy Soc

Franks, N. R., Dornhaus, A., Hitchcock, G., Guillem, R., Hooper, J., Webb, C., 2007. “Avoidance of conspecific colonies during nest choice by ants”. Animal Behaviour 73: 525-534 @ScienceDirect

Planque, R., Dornhaus, A., Franks, N. R., Kovacs, T., Marshall, J. A. R., 2007, “Weighting waiting in collective decision-making”, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61: 347-356 @Springer

Thom, C., Dornhaus, A., 2007, “Preliminary report on the use of volatile compounds by foraging honey bees in the hive (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Apis)”, Entomologia generalis 29: 299-304

2006
Dornhaus, A., Franks, N. R., 2006, “Colony size affects collecive decision-making in the ant Temnothorax albipennis", Insectes sociaux 53: 420-427 @Springer

Dornhaus, A., Collins, E.J., Dechaume-Moncharmont, F.-X., Houston, A., Franks, N.R., McNamara, J., 2006, “Paying for information: partial loads in central place foragers”, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61: 151-161 @Springer

Dornhaus, A., Klügl, F., Oechslein, C., Puppe, F., Chittka, L., 2006, “Benefits of recruitment in honey bees: effects of ecology and colony size in an individual-based model”, Behavioral Ecology 17: 336-344 pdf @BehEcol

Marshall, J. A. R., Dornhaus, A., Franks, N. R., Kovacs, T., 2006, “Noise, cost and speed-accuracy trade-offs: decision making in decentralised systems”, Journal of The Royal Society Interface 3: 243-254 pdf @Roy Soc

Franks, N. R., Dornhaus, A., Best, C. S., Jones, E. L., 2006, “Decision-making by small and large house-hunting ant colonies: one size fits all”, Animal Behaviour 72: 611-616 @ScienceDirect

Raine, N. E., Ings, T. C., Dornhaus, A., Saleh, N., Chittka, L., 2006, “Adaptation, genetic drift, pleiotropy, and history in the evolution of bee foraging behavior”, Advances in the Study of Behavior 36: 305-354

Franks, N. R., Dornhaus, A., Metherell, B. G., Nelson, T. R., Lanfear, S. A. J., Symes, W., 2006, “Not everything that counts can be counted: Ants use multiple metrics for a single nest trait.”, Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 273: 165-169 pdf @Roy Soc

2005
Granero, A. M., Guerra Sanz, J. M., Ega Gonzalez, F. J., Martinez Vidal, J. L., Dornhaus, A., Ghani, J., Serrano, A. R., Chittka, L., 2005, “Chemical compounds of the foraging recruitment pheromone in bumblebees”, Naturwissenschaften 92: 371-374

Dechaume-Moncharmont, F.-X., Dornhaus, A., Houston, A. I., McNamara, J. M., Collins, E. J., Franks, N. R., 2005, “The hidden cost of information in collective foraging”, Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 272: 1689-1695
pdf @Roy Soc

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 2005, “Bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) store both food and information in honeypots”, Behavioral Ecology 16: 661-666 pdf @BehEcol

Franks, N. R., Hooper, J., Webb, C., Dornhaus, A., 2005, “Tomb evaders: house-hunting hygiene in ants”, Biology Letters 1: 190-192 pdf @Roy Soc

2004
Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 2004, “Information flow and regulation of foraging activity in bumble bees”, Apidologie 35: 183-192 pdf @EDP Sciences

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 2004, “Why do honey bees dance?”, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 55: 395-401 @Springer

Dornhaus, A., Franks, N.R., Hawkins, R.M., Shere, H.N.S., 2004, “Ants move to improve – colonies of Leptothorax albipennis emigrate whenever they find a superior nest site”, Animal Behaviour 67: 959-963 @ScienceDirect

2003
Franks, N.R., Dornhaus, A., Fitzsimmons, J.P., Stevens, M., 2003, “Speed vs. Accuracy in Collective Decision-Making”, Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 270: 2457-2463 pdf @Roy Soc

Marshall JAR, Kovacs T, Dornhaus AR, et al., 2003, “Simulating the evolution of ant behaviour in evaluating nest sites”, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2801: 643-650 2003

Chittka, L., Dyer, A., Bock, F., Dornhaus, A., 2003, “Bees trade off foraging speed for accuracy”, Nature 424: 388 @Nature

Franks, N.R., Dornhaus, A., 2003, “How might individual honeybees measure massive volumes?”, Proceedings B: Biology Letters 270 (Supplement 2): 181-182 pdf @Roy Soc

Dornhaus, A., Brockmann, A., Chittka, L., 2003, “Bumble bees alert to food with pheromone from tergal gland”, Journal of Comparative Physiology A 189: 47-51 @Springer

Dornhaus, A., Cameron, S., 2003, “A scientific note on food alert in Bombus transversalis”, Apidologie 34: 87-88 pdf @EDP Sciences

2002
Dornhaus, A., 2002, “When do dances make a difference? Significance of honey bee recruitment depending on foraging distance”, Entomologia Generalis 26: 93-100

2001
Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 2001, “Food alert in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris): possible mechanisms and evolutionary implications”, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 50: 570-576 @Springer

1999
Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 1999, “Evolutionary origins of bee dances”, Nature 401: 38 @Nature

Chittka, L., Dornhaus, A., 1999, “Comparisons in physiology and evolution, and why bees can do the things they do”, Ciencia al Dia International 2: No. 2, ISSN 0717-3849 article

Conference contributions
2007

Dornhaus, A., Holley, J.-A., Franks, N. R., 2007, “Workload and specialization in the ants Temnothorax albipennis”, annual meeting of the American Animal Behavior Society, Burlington, VT, USA

Kulahci, I., Dornhaus, A., Papaj, D., 2007, “Multimodal signals enhance decision-making in bumblebees”, annual meeting of the American Animal Behavior Society, Burlington, VT, USA

2006
Sendova-Franks, A., Dornhaus, A., 2006, organization of symposium and presentation on “Collective and Individual Intelligence”, International meeting of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Washington D.C., USA

Jandt, J. M., Dornhaus, A., 2006, “Spatial Distribution of Bumble Bees (Bombus impatiens) Inside the Nest: Evidence for Spatial Fidelity Zones among Workers”, International meeting of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Washington D.C., USA

Dechaume-Moncharmont, F.-X., Dornhaus, A., McNamara, J. M., Houston, A. I., Collins, E. J., Franks, N. R., 2006, “When Slow Is Quick and Quick Is Slow: Ants Optimize Sequential Recruitment Methods”, International meeting of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Washington D.C., USA

Marshall, J. A. R., Bogacz, R., Dornhaus, A., Franks, N.R., Kovacs, T., Planque, R., 2006, “Unifying Collective and Individual Intelligence: Similar Models of Decision Making in the Primate Brain and During Colony-Level Decision Making”, International meeting of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Washington D.C., USA

Schmolke, A., Dornhaus, A., 2006, “Foraging in Temnothorax rugatulus ants: Individual search… rules!”, International meeting of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Washington D.C., USA

Guerra Sanz, J. M., Granero, A. M., Egea-Gonzalez, F. J., Martinez Vidal, J. L., Serrano, A. R., Dornhaus, A., Ghani, J., Chittka, L., 2006, “Food-alert and recruitment pheromone in the bumble bee Bombus terrestris”, International meeting of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Washington D.C., USA

2004
Dornhaus, A., “Information flow and organisation of foraging in social bees”, EurBee Conference, Udine, Italy

Dornhaus, A., “Group size and collective decisions in ants”, INSECTS (Integrated Study of the Effects of Kinship, Communication, Productivity and Disease): European Union Training and Mobility of Researchers-Network meeting Helsingor, Denmark

Dornhaus, A., “Group size and collective decisions in ant house-hunting”, International Society for Behavioral Ecology Meeting Jyväskylä, Finland

Dornhaus, A., “Group decisions with speed or accuracy in ants”, Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG) Rostock, Germany

2003
Dornhaus, A., Franks, N., 2003, “Rules of decision-making: trade-offs in collective house-hunting”, Mathematics and Algorithms in Social Insects 2nd Workshop, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA

Dornhaus, A., Kluegl, F., Oechslein, C., Puppe, F., 2003, “Foraging success, recruitment benefits and spatial resource distribution”, Mathematics and Algorithms in Social Insects 2nd Workshop, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA

Kluegl, F., Triebig, C., Dornhaus, A., 2003, “Studying Task Allocation Mechanisms of Social Insects For Engineering Multi-Agent Systems”, Mathematics and Algorithms in Social Insects 2nd Workshop, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA

Dornhaus, A., Franks, N., 2003, “Rules of decision-making: trade-offs in collective house-hunting”, Evolvability Symposium, London, United Kingdom

Dornhaus, A., Franks, N., 2003, “Individual and collective decisions: how large and small colonies of ants choose a new home” International Union for the Study of Social Insects (German section) Meeting, Regensburg, Germany

Dornhaus, A., 2003, “Honey pots as information stores in bumble bees”, German Zoological Society (DZG), Berlin, Germany

Dornhaus, A., Franks, N., Fitzsimmons, J., Stevens, M., 2003, “Ants choose to take their time when making decisions”, INSECTS (Integrated Study of the Effects of Kinship, Communication, Productivity and Disease): European Union Training and Mobility of Researchers-Network meeting Laufen, Germany

Marshall, J.A.R., Kovacs, T., Dornhaus, A., Franks, N.R., “Simulating the Evolution of Ant Behaviour in Evaluating New Nest Sites”, European Conference on Artificial Life 2003 (conference paper)

Marshall, J.A.R., Tim Kovacs, Anna R. Dornhaus and Nigel R. Franks. “Simulating the Evolution of Ant Behaviour in Evaluating Nest Sites”. Proceedings of the 2003 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI-03), pages 254-258. Jonathan M. Rossiter and Trevor P. Martin (Eds.). ISBN: 0862925371

2002
Dornhaus, A., 2002, “Information gathering at home: how bumble bees prepare for foraging”, Association for the Study of Animal Behavior Winter Meeting, London, United Kingdom

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 2002, “Why do honey bees dance?”, International Union for the Study of Social Insects (British Section) Meeting, London, United Kingdom

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 2002, “Information exchange in bumble bees - pheromones for food alert”, in: Association for the Study of Animal Behavior Spring conference, Bristol, United Kingdom

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 2002, “When do dances make a difference? Communication and ecology in honey bees”, in: First European Conference on Behavioural Biology, Münster, Germany – p23

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 2002, “The bumblebees’ ways of information management”, in: 95th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (German Zoological Society), Halle/Saale, Germany - Zoology (Jena) 105 (Supplement 5): 80

Kluegl, F., Oechslein, C., Puppe, F., Dornhaus, A., 2002, “Multi-agent modelling in comparison to standard modelling”, in: F.J.Barros and F. Giambiasi (eds), “Proceedings of the AIS2002 (Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Planning in High Autonomy Systems), Lisbon, Portugal”, SCS Publishing, San Diego, pp. 105-110

2001
Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 2001, “Direction Communication in the Waggle Dance - an Adaptation to the Tropics?”, in: XXVII International Ethological Conference, Tübingen, Germany - Advances in Ethology 36: 144

Streit, S., Tautz, J., Fuchs, S., Puppe, F., Kluegl, F., Dornhaus, A., Eggelbusch, K., 2001, “Modelling the dynamics of spread and virulence of Varroa destructor in a honey bee population using SeSAm (Shell for Simulated Agent Systems)”, in: Proceedings of the EuroConference on Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Tolerance in Honeybees, Prague, Czech Republic

2000
Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 2000, “The significance of the dance language to honeybee recruitment”, in: European Union Training and Mobility of Researchers Network Workshop Social Evolution, Pratolino, Firenze, Italy – p34

Dornhaus, A., 2000, “Communication about food sources in social bees – a matter of survival?”, in: Biologica Symposium “Communication: a matter of survival”, Wageningen, Netherlands – p22

1999
Dornhaus, A., 1999, “The communication and recruitment system in bumblebees – an ancestral „dance language“ ?”, in: Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (German Zoological Society), Innsbruck, Austria - Zoology (Jena) 102 (Supplement II, Abstracts 92.1): 27

Dornhaus, A., Hartmann, F., Chittka, L., 1999, “A window into the past: what bumblebees tell us about Cretaceous dances”, in: Göttingen Neurobiology Report 1999, Proceedings of the 1st Göttingen Conference of the German Neuroscience Society 1999, Volume II, 27th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, N. Elsner, U. Eysel (eds.), p557, Thieme Verlag Stuttgart

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 1999, “Communication about food sources in bumblebees”, in: European Union Training and Mobility of Researchers Network Workshop Social Insects as Model Systems, Losehill Hall, Castleton, United Kingdom – p11

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 1999, “New communication system in bumble bees”, in: International Union for the Study of Social Insects Meeting (German Section) Hohenheim, Germany, “Soziale Insekten”, P. Rosenkranz, C. Garrido (eds.) – p29

Fuchs, S., Dornhaus, A., Hager, R., Klügl, F., Puppe, F., Tautz, J., 1999, “A parasite - host simulation perspective on virulence in Varroa jacobsoni”, in: International Union for the Study of Social Insects Adelaide – p175

1998
Chapman, M.J., Dornhaus, A., Margulis, L., 1998, “The Gunnera-Nostoc Nitrogen-Fixing Symbiotic Consortium”, Endocytobiosis & Cell Res. 13: 154a, Supplement - Endocytobiology VII

Dornhaus, A., Klügl, F., Puppe, F., Tautz, J., 1998, “Task selection in honeybees - experiments using multi-agent simulation”, in: 3rd German Workshop on Artificial Life, C. Wilke, S. Altmeyer, T. Martinez (eds.), p171-183, Verlag Harri Deutsch (conference paper)

Book review
Weidenmüller, A., Schikora, J., Dornhaus, A., Spaethe, J., Kleineidam, C., 1999, “ 'Cognitive Ecology: The Evolutionary Ecology of Information Processing and Decision Making' Edited by Reuven Dukas”, Animal Behaviour 58: 455-456

 

 

Publications of lab members before joining this lab

Hyland, K.M., Cao, T.T., Malechuk, A.M., Lewis, L.A. & Schneider, S.S. 2006. Vibration signal behaviour and the use of modulatory communication in established and newly found honey bee colonies. Animal Behaviour in press

Jandt, J. M., Riel, L., Crain, B., Jeanne, R. L. 2005. Vespula germanica foragers do not scent-mark carbohydrate food sites. Journal of Insect Behavior 18: 19-31.

Jandt, J. M., Jeanne, R. L. 2005. German yellowjacket (Vespula germanica) foragers use odors inside the nest to find carbohydrate food sources. Ethology 111: 641-651.

Jandt, J. M., Curry, C., Hemauer, S., Jeanne, R. L. 2005. The accumulation of a chemical cue: Nest entrance trail in the German yellowjacket, Vespula germanica. Naturwissenschaften 92: 242-245.

 

 
our labrat, Temnothorax rugatulus (marked with paint for individual recognition) (c) Alex Wild