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Wendt, Stephanie , Strunk, Kim S , Heinze, Jürgen, Roider, Andreas and Czaczkes, Tomer J (2019) Positive and negative incentive contrasts lead to relative value perception in ants. eLife 8, pp. 1-22.

Jacobs, Susanne and Heinze, Jürgen (2019) Population and colony structure of an ant with territorial males, Cardiocondyla venustula. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19 (115), pp. 1-9.

Giehr, Julia and Heinze, Jürgen (2018) Queens stay, workers leave: caste-specific responses to fatal infections in an ant. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18 (1), pp. 1-11.

Cardoso, Danon Clemes, Heinze, Jürgen, Moura, Mariana Neves and Cristiano, Maykon Passos (2018) Chromosomal variation among populations of a fungus-farming ant: implications for karyotype evolution and potential restriction to gene flow. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18 (146), pp. 1-10.

Shahdadi, Adnan (2018) Molecular phylogeny, phylogeography and taxonomic revision of species of the genus Perisesarma De Man, 1895 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae). PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Deli, Temim, Kalkan, Evrim, Karhan, Selahattin Ünsal, Uzunova, Sonya, Keikhosravi, Alireza, Bilgin, Raşit and Schubart, Christoph D. (2018) Parapatric genetic divergence among deep evolutionary lineages in the Mediterranean green crab, Carcinus aestuarii (Brachyura, Portunoidea, Carcinidae), accounts for a sharp phylogeographic break in the Eastern Mediterranean. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18 (53), pp. 1-21.

Giehr, Julia, Heinze, Jürgen and Schrempf, Alexandra (2017) Group demography affects ant colony performance and individual speed of queen and worker aging. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17 (173), pp. 1-9.

Cannicci, Stefano, Schubart, Christoph D., Innocenti, Gianna , Dahdouh-Guebas, Farid, Shahdadi, Adnan and Fratini, Sara (2017) A new species of the genus Parasesarma De Man 1895 from East African mangroves and evidence for mitochondrial introgression in sesarmid crabs. Zoologischer Anzeiger 269, pp. 89-99. Fulltext not available.

SEIFERT, BERNHARD, OKITA, ICHIRO and HEINZE, JÜRGEN (2017) A taxonomic revision of the Cardiocondyla nuda group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 4290 (2), p. 324. Fulltext not available.

Savari, R., Kamrani, E. and Shahdadi, A. (2017) Annual breeding patterns of the intertidal barnacle Microeuraphia permitini (Chthamalidae, Euraphinae) in different habitats of the Persian Gulf. Crustaceana 90 (1), pp. 21-34. Fulltext not available.

Giehr, Julia, Grasse, Anna V., Cremer, Sylvia, Heinze, Jürgen and Schrempf, Alexandra (2017) Ant queens increase their reproductive efforts after pathogen infection. Royal Society Open Science 4 (7), p. 170547. Fulltext not available.

Anagnostou, C. and Schubart, C. D. (2017) Evidence for a single panmictic and genetically diverse population of the coconut crab Birgus latro (Decapoda: Anomura: Coenobitidae) on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. Marine and Freshwater Research 68 (6), p. 1165. Fulltext not available.

Schmidt, Christine V., Heimbucher, Andreas, Bernadou, Abel and Heinze, Jürgen (2017) First come, first served: the first-emerging queen monopolizes reproduction in the ant Cardiocondyla “argyrotricha”. Journal of Ethology 35 (1), pp. 21-27. Fulltext not available.

Wendt, Stephanie and Czaczkes, Tomer J. (2017) Individual ant workers show self-control. Biology Letters 13 (10), p. 20170450. Fulltext not available.

Parvizi, Elaheh, Naderloo, Reza, Keikhosravi, Alireza and Schubart, Christoph D. (2017) Life history traits and patterns of sexual dimorphism in the freshwater crab Potamon ibericum (Bieberstein, 1809) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from the western Alborz Mountains, Iran. Journal of Crustacean Biology 37 (3), pp. 323-331. Fulltext not available.

NDONGO, PIERRE A. MVOGO, SCHUBART, CHRISTOPH D., RINTELEN, THOMAS VON, TAMESSE, JOSEPH L. and CUMBERLIDGE, NEIL (2017) Morphological and molecular evidence for a new species of freshwater crab of the genus Sudanonautes Bott, 1955 (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae) from Cameroon, with notes on its ecology. Zootaxa 4242 (1), p. 161. Fulltext not available.

Shahdadi, Adnan, Davie, Peter J. F. and Schubart, Christoph D. (2017) Perisesarma tuerkayi, a new species of mangrove crab from Vietnam (Decapoda, Brachyura, Sesarmidae), with an assessment of its phylogenetic relationships. Crustaceana 90 (7-10), pp. 1155-1175. Fulltext not available.

Hübner, Carolin and Czaczkes, Tomer J. (2017) Risk preference during collective decision making: ant colonies make risk-indifferent collective choices. Animal Behaviour 132, pp. 21-28. Fulltext not available.

Schrempf, Alexandra, Giehr, Julia, Röhrl, Ramona, Steigleder, Sarah and Heinze, Jürgen (2017) Royal Darwinian Demons: Enforced Changes in Reproductive Efforts Do Not Affect the Life Expectancy of Ant Queens. The American Naturalist 189 (4), pp. 436-442. Fulltext not available.

Csata, Enikő, Bernadou, Abel , Rákosy-Tican, Elena, Heinze, Jürgen and Markó, Bálint (2017) The effects of fungal infection and physiological condition on the locomotory behaviour of the ant Myrmica scabrinodis. Journal of Insect Physiology 98, pp. 167-172. Fulltext not available.

Schrempf, Alexandra, Heinze, Jürgen and Metzler, Sina (2016) Mating and longevity in ant males. Ecology and Evolution 2016 (6), pp. 8903-8906.

Wyschetzki, Katharina von (2016) Evaluating proximate causes of longevity in ant queens by RNA-sequencing. PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Thiercelin, Nicolas (2016) Impact of life history and ecology on rate of diversification and speciation, as exemplified by thoracotreme crabs along the western tropical Atlantic and on both sides of the Isthmus of Panama. PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Schrader, Lukas (2016) Phenotypic plasticity in Cardiocondyla obscurior. PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Trettin, Jürgen, Agrawal, Shobhit and Heinze, Jürgen (2016) Phylogeography of social polymorphism in a boreo-montane ant. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16 (137), pp. 1-14.

Frohschammer, Sabine (2016) Comparative analysis of reproductive tactics in the genus Cardiocondyla. PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Oettler, Jan, Klein, Antonia, Schultner, Eva, Lowak, Helena, Schrader, Lukas, Heinze, Jürgen and Holman, Luke (2016) Evolution of Social Insect Polyphenism Facilitated by the Sex Differentiation Cascade. PLoS Genetics 12 (3), e1005952.

Czaczkes, Tomer J., Weichselgartner, Tobias, Bernadou, Abel and Heinze, Jürgen (2016) The Effect of Trail Pheromone and Path Confinement on Learning of Complex Routes in the Ant Lasius niger. PLoS ONE 11 (3), e0149720.

Cristiano, Maykon Passos, Cardoso, Danon Clemens, Fernandes-Salomão, Tânia Maria and Heinze, Jürgen (2016) Integrating Paleodistribution Models and Phylogeography in the Grass-Cutting Ant Acromyrmex striatus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Southern Lowlands of South America. PLoS ONE 11 (1), e0146734.

Jacobs, Susanne and Heinze, Jürgen (2016) Between fighting and tolerance: reproductive biology of wingless males in the ant Cardiocondyla venustula. Insect Science 24 (5), pp. 818-828. Fulltext not available.

Czaczkes, Tomer J. , Castorena, Martin, Schürch, Roger and Heinze, Jürgen (2016) Pheromone trail following in the antLasius niger: high accuracy and variability but no effect of task state. Physiological Entomology 42 (1), pp. 91-97. Fulltext not available.

Klein, Antonia (2015) Endosymbiosis, Co-option and Recombination: Mechanisms to generate Evolutionary Novelty in the Ant Cardiocondyla obscurior. PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Trettin, Jürgen (2015) Proximate and ultimate factors influencing reproductive skew in the ant species Leptothorax acervorum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Korb, Judith and Heinze, Jürgen (2015) Major Hurdles for the Evolution of Sociality. Annual Review of Entomology 61, pp. 297-316. Fulltext not available.

Oettler, Jan, Nachtigal, Anna-Lena and Schrader, Lukas (2015) Expression of the Foraging Gene Is Associated with Age Polyethism, Not Task Preference, in the Ant Cardiocondyla obscurior. PLoS One 10 (12), e0144699.

Konstanze, Krueger , Gudrun, Schneider, Birgit, Flauger and Jürgen, Heinze (2015) Context-dependent third-party intervention in agonistic encounters of male Przewalski horses
Short title: Third-party intervention in Przewalski horses. Behavioural Processes 121, pp. 54-62.

Heinze, Jürgen, Buschinger, Alfred, Pöttinger, Theo and Suefuji, Masaki (2015) Multiple Convergent Origins of Workerlessness and Inbreeding in the Socially Parasitic Ant Genus Myrmoxenus. PLoS ONE 10 (7), pp. 1-10.

Schrempf, Alexandra, Giehr, Julia and Heinze, Jürgen (2015) The ant Cardiocondyla elegans as host of the enigmatic endoparasitic fungus Myrmicinosporidium durum. Psyche 2015 (2015), pp. 1-4.

Cardoso, Danon Clemens, Cristiano, Maykon Passos, Tavares, Mara Garcia, Schubart, Christoph D. and Heinze, Jürgen (2015) Phylogeography of the sand dune ant Mycetophylax simplex along the Brazilian Atlantic Forest coast: remarkably low mtDNA diversity and shallow population structure. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15 (106), pp. 1-13.

Füßl, Marion (2015) Sexual cooperation in two male-diphenic Cardiocondyla species. PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Czaczkes, Tomer J., Heinze, Jürgen and Ruther, Joachim (2015) Nest Etiquette—Where Ants Go When Nature Calls. PLoS ONE 10 (2), pp. 1-8.

Czaczkes, Tomer J. , Grüter, Christoph and Ratnieks, Francis L.W. (2015) Trail Pheromones: An Integrative View of Their Role in Social Insect Colony Organization. Annual Review of Entomology 60, pp. 581-599. Fulltext not available.

Oettler, Jan, Schrader, Lukas, Kim, Jay W., Ence, Daniel, Zimin, Aleksey, Klein, Antonia, Wyschetzki, Katharina, Weichselgartner, Tobias, Kemena, Carsten, Stöckl, Johannes, Schultner, Eva, Wurm, Yannik, Smith, Christopher D., Yandell, Mark, Heinze, Jürgen and Gadau, Jürgen (2014) Transposable element islands facilitate adaptation to novel environments in an invasive species. Nature Communications 5 (5495).

Schmidt, Anna Maria (2014) Insights into the evolution of ‘magnetic’ termites: mound shape and population genetics. PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Fuessl, Marion, Reinders, Jörg, Oefner, Peter J., Heinze, Jürgen and Schrempf, Alexandra (2014) Selenophosphate-synthetase in the male accessory glands of an insect without selenoproteins. Journal of insect physiology 71, pp. 46-51. Fulltext not available.

Trettin, Jürgen, Seyferth, Thomas and Heinze, Jürgen (2014) Behavioral Plasticity in Ant Queens: Environmental Manipulation Induces. PLoS ONE 9 (4), e95153.

Heinze, Jürgen and Burnett, William E. (2014) Sperm Bundles in the Seminal Vesicles of Sexually Mature Lasius Ant Males. PLoS ONE 9 (3), e3383.

Keikhosravi, Alireza (2014) Taxonomic and phylogenetic relationships of freshwater crabs of the genus Potamon (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae) from Iran. PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Wolter, Riccarda , Pantel, Norbert, Stefanski, Volker and Krueger, Konstanze (2014) The role of an alpha animal in changing environmental conditions. Physiology & Behavior 133, pp. 236-243.

Oettler, Jan, Dijkstra, Michiel B. and Heinze, Jürgen (2013) Egg-layiyng "intermorphs" in the ant Crematogaster smithi neither affect sexual production nor male parentage. PLoS One 8.

Tragust, Simon (2013) Social immune defence in ants -
Different aspects of hygienic behaviour and the infestation with Laboulbeniales in Lasius neglectus ants. PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Seifert, Bernhard and Frohschammer, Sabine (2013) Cardiocondyla pirata sp. n. - a new Philippine ant with enigmatic pigmentation pattern (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys (301), pp. 13-24.

Oettler, Jan, Schmid, Volker S, Zankl, Niko, Rey, Olivier, Dress, Andreas and Heinze, Jürgen (2013) Fermat's principle of least time predicts refraction of ant trails at substrate borders. PloS one 8 (3), e59739.

Krueger, Konstanze , Farmer, Kate and Heinze, Jürgen (2013) The effects of age, rank and neophobia on social learning in horses. Animal Cognition In press.

Schmid, Volker (2012) Reproductive conflict among workers of the ant species Pseudomyrmex gracilis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Heinze, Jürgen and Schrempf, Alexandra (2012) Terminal Investment: Individual Reproduction of Ant Queens Increases with Age. PLoS One, e35201.

Schneider, Gudrun and Krüger, Konstanze (2012) Third-party interventions keep social partners from exchanging affiliative interactions with others. Animal Behaviour 83, pp. 377-388.

Flauger, Birgit (2011) The introduction of horses into new social groups with special regard to their stress level. PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Cremer, Sylvia, Schrempf, Alexandra and Heinze, Jürgen (2011) Competition and opportunity shape the reproductive tactics of males in the ant Cardiocondyla obscurior. PloS one 6 (3), e17323.

Walter, Bartosz J. (2011) Aging and social homeostasis in social insects. PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Krueger, Konstanze , Farmer, Kate and Byrne, Richard W. (2011) Die sensorische Lateralität als Indikator für emotionale und kognitive Reaktionen auf Umweltreize beim Tier. The use of sensory laterality for indicating emotional and cognitive reactions on environmental stimuli in animals. In: Erhard, M. and Pollmann, U. and Puppe, B. and Reiter, L. and Waiblinger, S., (eds.) Aktuelle Arbeiten zur artgemäßen Tierhaltung 2011: 43. Tagung Angewandte Ehologie bei Nutztieren der DVG. Kuratorium für Technik und Bauwesen in der Landwirtschaft. ISBN 978-3-941583-58-0.

Krueger, Konstanze and Flauger, Birgit (2011) Olfactory Recognition of Individual Competitors by Means of Faeces in Horse (Equus caballus). Animal Cognition Online.

Trettin, Jürgen, Haubner, Monika, Buschinger, Alfred and Heinze, Jürgen (2011) Queen dominance and worker policing control reproduction in a threatened ant. BMC ecology 11 (1), p. 21.

Brunner, Elisabeth, Kroiss, Johannes, Trindl, Andreas and Heinze, Jürgen (2011) Queen pheromones in Temnothorax ants: control or honest signal? BMC evolutionary biology 11, p. 55.

Krüger, Konstanze (2011) „Erfasst“ das Pferd die menschliche Psyche? In: Dettling, M. and Opgen-Rhein, C, and Kläschen, M., (eds.) Pferdegestützte Therapie bei psychischen Erkrankungen. Schattauer, Stuttgart, pp. 23-36. ISBN 978-3-7945-2755-7. Fulltext restricted.

Oppelt, Angelika (2010) Sexual selection in the ant Leptothorax gredleri. PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Krueger, Konstanze , Flauger, Birgit, Farmer, Kate and Maros, Katalin (2010) Horses (Equus caballus) use human local enhancement cues and adjust to human attention. Animal Cognition Online.

Kellner, Katrin (2010) When and where to have sex?
Different modes of reproduction and life history traits in the facultative parthenogenetic ant Platythyrea punctata. PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Brunner, Elisabeth (2010) Regulation of worker reproduction in ants:
The role of kinship. PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Flauger, Birgit, Krueger, Konstanze , Gerhards, Hartmut and Möstl, Erich (2010) Simplified method to measure glucocorticoid metabolites in faeces of horses. Veterinary research communications 34 (2), pp. 185-195.

Farmer, Kate, Konstanze, Krueger and Byrne, Richard W. (2009) Visual laterality in the domestic horse (Equus caballus) interacting with humans. Animal Cognition 13, pp. 229-238.

Krueger, Konstanze and Heinze, Jürgen (2008) Horse sense: social status of horses (Equus caballus) affects their likelihood of copying other horses’ behavior. Animal Cognition 11 (3), pp. 431-439.

Oettler, Jan (2008) Natural history, plastic traits and reproduction in ants. PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Krueger, Konstanze and Flauger, Birgit (2008) Social feeding decisions in horses (Equus caballus). Behavioural Processes 78 (1), pp. 76-83.

Krueger, Konstanze (2008) Social Ecology of Horses. In: Korb, Judith and Heinze, Jürgen, (eds.) Ecology of Social Evolution. Springer, Berlin, pp. 195-206. ISBN 978-3540759560.

Beibl, Jeanette (2007) Radiation in socially parasitic formicoxenine ants. PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Krueger, Konstanze (2007) Behaviour of Horses in the “Round Pen Technique”. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 104 (1-2), pp. 162-170.

Pusch, Katja (2007) Distribution, phylogeography and hybridization between two parapatric sibling ant species of the genus Temnothorax. PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Krueger, Konstanze and Flauger, Birgit (2007) Commentary
Social learning in horses from a novel perspective. Behavioural Processes 76, pp. 37-39.

Schrempf, Alexandra (2006) Alternative reproductive tactics and their consequences in the ant genus Cardiocondyla. PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Goller, Helmut (2002) Kontextabhängiger Erwerb von Arten- und Formenkenntnissen im Biologieunterricht des Gymnasiums. PhD, Universität Regensburg.

Heinze, Jürgen, Hölldobler, B. and Peters, C. (1994) Conflict and Cooperation in Ant Societies. Naturwissenschaften 81 (11), pp. 489-497.

Buschinger, Alfred, Schumann, R. D. and Heinze, Jürgen (1994) First records of the guest ant Formicoxenus quebecensis Francoeur from western Canada (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche 101 (1-2), pp. 53-57.

Heinze, Jürgen, Ortius, Diethe, Kaib, Manfred and Hölldobler, Bert (1994) Interspecific Aaggression in colonies of the slave-making ant Harpagoxenus sublaevis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 35 (2), pp. 75-83.

Heinze, Jürgen, Künholz, S., Schilder, K. and Hölldobler, B. (1993) Behavior of ergatoid males in the ant,
Cardiocondyla nuda. Insectes Sociaux 40 (3), pp. 273-282.

Kaib, M., Heinze, Jürgen and Ortius, Diethe (1993) Cuticular Hydrocarbon Profiles in the Slave-Making Ant Harpagoxenus sublaevis and Its Hosts. Naturwissenschaften 80 (6), pp. 281-285.

Heinze, Jürgen (1993) Habitat structure, dispersal strategies and queen number
in two boreal Leptothorax ants. Acta Oecologica 96 (1), pp. 32-39.

Heinze, Jürgen (1993) Life-Histories of Sub-Arctic Ants. ARCTIC 46 (4), pp. 354-358.

Heinze, Jürgen, Schulz, A. and Radchenko, A. G (1993) Redescription of the ant Leptothorax (s. str.) Scamni Ruzsky, 1905. Psyche (Cambridge) 100 (3-4), pp. 177-183.

Heinze, Jürgen, Hölldobler, B. and Cover, S. P. (1992) Queen polymorphism in the North American harvester ant, Ephebomyrmex imberbiculus. Insectes Sociaux 39 (3), pp. 267-237.

Heinze, Jürgen and Alloway, T. M. (1991) LEPTOTHORAX-PARAXENUS NEW-SPECIES A WORKERLESS SOCIAL PARASITE FROM NORTH AMERICA HYMENOPTERA FORMICIDAE. Psyche (Cambridge) 98 (2-3), pp. 195-206.

Heinze, Jürgen and Ortius, Diethe (1991) SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF LEPTOTHORAX ACERVORUM FROM ALASKA (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE). Psyche (Cambridge) 98 (2-3), pp. 227-240.

Heinze, Jürgen and Smith, T. A. (1990) Dominance and fertility in a functionally monogynous ant. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 27 (1), pp. 1-10.

Heinze, Jürgen (1989) LEPTOTHORAX-WILSONI NEW-SPECIES A NEW PARASITIC ANT FROM EASTERN NORTH AMERICA HYMENOPTERA FORMICIDAE. Psyche (Cambridge) 96 (1-2), pp. 49-62.

Heinze, Jürgen and Buschinger, Alfred (1989) QUEEN POLYMORPHISM IN LEPTOTHORAX SPEC-A - ITS GENETIC AND ECOLOGICAL BACKGROUND (HYMENOPTERA, FORMICIDAE). Insectes Sociaux 36 (2), pp. 139-155.

Buschinger, Alfred, Cagniant, Henry, Erhardt, Werner and Heinze, Jürgen (1988) CHALEPOXENUS-BRUNNEUS A WORKERLESS DEGENERATE SLAVE-MAKER ANT (HYMENOPTERA FORMICIDAE). Psyche (Cambridge) 95 (3-4), pp. 253-264.

Buschinger, Alfred and Heinze, Jürgen (1988) PRACTICAL TUBE NESTS FOR TRANSPORTATION AND MAILING OF LIVE ANT COLONIES. Insectes Sociaux 35 (2), pp. 206-208.

Heinze, Jürgen and Buschinger, Alfred (1987) QUEEN POLYMORPHISM IN A NON-PARASITIC LEPTOTHORAX SPECIES (HYMENOPTERA, FORMICIDAE). Insectes Sociaux 34 (1), pp. 28-43.