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  1. Status discrimination through fertility signalling allows ants to regulate reproductive conflicts

    Article • Animal Behaviour, July 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Pierre Blacher

  2. Drifting behaviour as an alternative reproductive strategy for social insect workers

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Pierre Blacher

  3. Dysfunctional reproductive physiology, and not reproductive activation, triggers policing in experimental colonies of the clonal antCerapachys biroi

    Article • Communicative & Integrative Biology, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Pierre Blacher

  4. Specific recognition of reproductive parasite workers by nest-entrance guards in the bumble bee Bombus terrestris

    Article • Frontiers in Zoology, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Pierre Blacher

  5. Social Context and Reproductive Potential Affect Worker Reproductive Decisions in a Eusocial Insect

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2012, PLOS

    Dr Pierre Blacher

  6. Reproductive hierarchies and status discrimination in orphaned colonies of Pachycondyla apicalis ants

    Article • Animal Behaviour, January 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Pierre Blacher

  7. Investigation of individual discrimination and social status capacity of ants Pachycondyla apicalis

    Article • January 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Pierre Blacher