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in press Cao T, Dornhaus A 2008 'Ants under crowded conditions consume more energy' Biology Letters in press Dornhaus A, Franks NR 2008 'Individual and collective cognition in ants and other insects (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)' Myrmecol News 11 @ Myrmecol News 2008 Dornhaus A, Holley J-A, Pook VG, Worswick G, Franks NR 2008 'Why do not all workers work? Colony size and workload during emigrations in the ant Temnothorax albipennis' Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology published online July 2008 @Springer 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 published online @ Ecol Entom Kulahci IG, Dornhaus A, Papaj D 2008 ‘Multimodal signals enhance decision-making in bumblebees’ Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 275: 797-802 @ Roy Soc 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 @ Springer Franks NR, Hooper JW, Dornhaus A, Aukett PJ, Hayward AL, Berghoff S 2007 'Reconnaissance and latent learning in ants' Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 274: 1505-1509 @Roy Soc Franks NR, 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 NR, Kovacs T, Marshall JAR 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 NR 2006 'Colony size affects collecive decision-making in the ant Temnothorax albipennis' Insectes sociaux 53: 420-427 @Springer Dornhaus A, Collins EJ, Dechaume-Moncharmont F-X, Houston A, Franks NR, 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.