Prof Francis Ratnieks

Couvillon, Margaret J, Phillipps, Hunter L F, Schürch, Roger and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2012) Working against gravity: horizontal honeybee waggle runs have greater angular scatter than vertical waggle runs. Biology Letters. ISSN 1744-9561

Couvillon, Margaret J, Riddell Pearce, Fiona C, Harris-Jones, Elisabeth L, Kuepfer, Amanda M, Mackenzie-Smith, Samantha J, Rozario, Laura A, Schürch, Roger and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2012) Intra-dance variation among waggle runs and the design of efficient protocols for honey bee dance decoding. Biology Open. ISSN 2046-6390

Couvillon, Margaret J, Zweden, Jelle S and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2012) Model of collective decision-making in nestmate recognition fails to account for individual discriminator responses and non-independent discriminator errors. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 66 (2). pp. 339-341. ISSN 0340-5443

Grüter, Christoph, Menezes, Cristiano, Imperatriz-Fonseca, Vera L and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2012) From the Cover: A morphologically specialized soldier caste improves colony defense in a neotropical eusocial bee. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (4). pp. 1182-1186. ISSN 0027-8424

Couvillon, Margaret J, Hughes, William O H, Perez-Sato, Juan A, Martin, Stephen J, Roy, Gabrielle G F and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2010) Sexual selection in honey bees: colony variation and the importance of size in male mating success. Behavioral Biology, 21 (3). pp. 520-525. ISSN 1045-2249

Couvillon, Margaret J, Roy, Gabrielle G F and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2009) Recognition errors by honey bee (Apis mellifera) guards demonstrate overlapping cues in conspecific recognition. Journal of Apicultural Research, 48 (4). pp. 225-232. ISSN 0021-8839

Helanterä, Heikki and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2008) Geometry explains the benefits of division of labour in a leafcutter ant. Proceedings of the Royal Society, 275 (1640). pp. 1255-1260. ISSN 1471-2954

Hughes, William O H, Oldroyd, Benjamin P, Beekman, Madeleine and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2008) Ancestral monogamy shows kin selection is key to the evolution of eusociality. Science, 320 (5880). pp. 1213-1216. ISSN 0036-8075

Couvillon, Margaret, Wenseleers, T, Imperatriz-Fonseca, V L, Nogueira-Neto, P and Ratnieks, F L W (2008) Comparative Study in Stingless Bees (Meliponini) Demonstrates that Nest Entrance Size Predicts Traffic and Defensivity. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 21 (1). pp. 194-201. ISSN 1010-061X

Hughes, William O H, Perez-Sato, Juan Antonio, Couvillon, Margaret J and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2008) Effects of hive spacing, entrance orientation, and worker activity on nest relocation by honey bee queens. Apidologie, 39 (6). pp. 708-713. ISSN 0044-8435

Couvillon, Margaret J, Robinson, Elva J H, Atkinson, Beth, Child, Laura, Dent, Katie R and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2008) En Guarde: Rapid changes in honey bee guarding to intense robbing demonstrates individual and colony level responses. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 76 (5). pp. 1653-1658. ISSN 0168-1591

Couvillon, Margaret, Caple, Jamie P, Endsor, Samuel L, Kärcher, Martin, Russell, Trudy E, Storey, Darren E and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2007) Nest-mate recognition template of guard honeybees (Apis mellifera) is modified by wax comb transfer. Biology Letters, 3 (3). pp. 228-230. ISSN 1744-957X

Perez-Sato, Juan Antonio, Hughes, William O H, Couvillon, Margaret and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2007) Improved technique for introducing four-day old virgin queens to mating hives that uses artificial and natural queen cells for introduction. Journal of Agricultural Research, 46 (1). pp. 28-33. ISSN 0021-8839

Wenseleers, Tom and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2006) Enforced altruism in insect societies. Nature, 444. p. 50. ISSN 0028-0836

Robinson, Elva J H, Jackson, Duncan E, Holcombe, Mike and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2005) Insect communication: "No entry" signal in ant foraging. Nature, 438. p. 442. ISSN 0028-0836

Jackson, Duncan E, Holcombe, Mike and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2004) Geometry gives polarity to ant pheromone trails. Nature, Vol 43. pp. 907-909. ISSN 0028-0836

Martin, Stephen J, Beekman, Madeleine, Wossler, Theresa C and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2002) Parasitic Cape honeybee workers, Apis mellifera capensis, evade policing. Nature, 415. pp. 163-165. ISSN 0028-0836

Monnin, Thibaud, Ratnieks, Francis L W, Jones, Graeme R and Beard, Richard (2002) Pretender punishment induced by chemical signalling in a queenless ant. Nature, 419. pp. 61-65. ISSN 0028-0836

Oldroyd, Benjamin P, Halling, Luke A, Good, Gregory, Wattanachaiyingcharoen, Wandee, Barron, Andrew B, Nanork, Piyamas, Wongsiri, Siriwat and Ratnieks, Francis L (2001) Worker policing and worker reproduction in Apis cerana. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 50 (4). pp. 371-377. ISSN 0340-5443

Czaczkes, Tomer J and Ratnieks, Francis L W Cooperative transport in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and elsewhere. Myrmecological News, 18. pp. 1-11. ISSN 1994-4136