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List of works by Johan Billen

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Coevolved crypts and exocrine glands support mutualistic bacteria in fungus-growing ants

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Conserved class of queen pheromones stops social insect workers from reproducing

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Metformin promotes lifespan through mitohormesis via the peroxiredoxin PRDX-2

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Widespread occurrence of the micro-organism Wolbachia in ants

scientific article published in August 1998

Tetraponera ants have gut symbionts related to nitrogen-fixing root-nodule bacteria

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Behavioral mechanisms and morphological symptoms of zombie ants dying from fungal infection

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The life of a dead ant: the expression of an adaptive extended phenotype

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Cloning and sequencing of wsp encoding gene fragments reveals a diversity of co-infecting Wolbachia strains in Acromyrmex leafcutter ants

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Deleterious Wolbachia in the ant Formica truncorum.

scientific article published in March 2002

Policing behaviour towards virgin egg layers in a polygynous ponerine ant.

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The diversity of microorganisms associated with Acromyrmex leafcutter ants

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Chemistry of metapleural gland secretions of three attine ants,Atta sexdens rubropilosa, Atta cephalotes, andAcromyrmex octospinosus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

scientific article published on May 1, 1996

Occurrence and structural organization of the exocrine glands in the legs of ants.

scientific article published on October 2008

Cuticular hydrocarbons provide reliable cues of fertility in the ant Gnamptogenys striatula.

scientific article published on 11 August 2006

Caste fate conflict in swarm-founding social hymenoptera: an inclusive fitness analysis.

scientific article published in July 2003

Task-related variation of postpharyngeal and cuticular hydrocarbon compositions in the ant Myrmicaria eumenoides

scientific article published on 01 October 2000

Colony stage and not facultative policing explains pattern of worker reproduction in the Saxon wasp

scientific article published on 18 July 2011

Comparative survey of abdominal gland secretions of the ant subfamily Ponerinae

scientific article published in January 2003

The importance of the spermathecal duct in bumblebees

scientific article published in September 2000

Contents of dufour glands of workers of three species of Tetramorium (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

scientific article published on 01 March 1986

The queen is dead--long live the workers: intraspecific parasitism by workers in the stingless bee Melipona scutellaris

scientific article published on 10 September 2009

Queen-worker differences in spermatheca reservoir of phylogenetically basal ants

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Successful maintenance of a stingless bee population despite a severe genetic bottleneck

article published in 2010

Morphology and ultrastructure of a specialized bacterial pouch in the digestive tract of Tetraponera ants (Formicidae, Pseudomyrmecinae)

scientific article published on 01 July 2000

Variation with caste of the mandibular gland secretion in the leaf-cutting antAtta sexdens rubropilosa

scientific article published on 01 May 1993

The evolution of worker–queen polymorphism in Cataglyphis ants: interplay between individual- and colony-level selections

article by Fernando Amor et al published 4 March 2011 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Intraspecific queen parasitism in a highly eusocial bee.

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Evolution of a soldier caste specialized to lay unfertilized eggs in the ant genus Crematogaster (subgenus Orthocrema)

scientific article published on February 28, 2013

Amfor expression in the honeybee brain: a trigger mechanism for nurse-forager transition

scientific article published on 3 August 2008

Levels of clonal mixing in the black bean aphid Aphis fabae, a facultative ant mutualist.

scientific article published on 21 July 2011

Hydrocarbon signatures of egg maternity, caste membership and reproductive status in the common wasp.

scientific article published on 11 January 2012

Volatile glandular secretions of three species of new world army ants,Eciton burchelli, Labidus coecus, andLabidus praedator

scientific article published on 01 November 1993

Volatile secretion of dufour gland of workers of an army ant,Dorylus (Anomma) molestus.

scientific article published in August 1991

Large interclone differences in melezitose secretion in the facultatively ant-tended black bean aphid Aphis fabae

scientific article published on August 26, 2011

Co-occurrence of three types of egg policing in the Norwegian wasp Dolichovespula norwegica

article by Wim Bonckaert et al published 24 September 2010 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Thelytokous parthenogenesis by queens in the dacetine ant Pyramica membranifera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).

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Functional analysis of a pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor-like protein in insects: silencing effects resemble the human pancreatic autodigestion phenotype

scientific article published on 8 May 2011

Spectacular Batesian mimicry in ants

scientific article published in October 2004

Comparison of spermatheca morphology between reproductive and non-reproductive females in social wasps

scientific article published on 19 November 2007

A new type of exocrine gland and its function in mass recruitment in the ant Cylindromyrmex whymperi (Formicidae, Cerapachyinae)

scientific article published on September 1, 2001

Degeneration of sperm reservoir and the loss of mating ability in worker ants

scientific article published on 13 August 2008

The dufour gland and the secretion placed on eggs of two species of social wasps,Liostenogaster flavolineata andParischnogaster jacobsoni (vespidae: Stenogastrinae)

scientific article published on 01 February 1993

Volatile secretions of old world army antAenictus rotundatus and chemotaxonomic implications of army ant dufour gland chemistry

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Differences in Climbing Ability of Cimex lectularius and Cimex hemipterus (Hemiptera: Cimicidae).

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Aberrant Collagen Composition of the Trabecular Meshwork Results in Reduced Aqueous Humor Drainage and Elevated IOP in MMP-9 Null Mice

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Histology of structures used in territorial combat by Borneo’s ‘exploding ants’

scientific article published in 2011

Distinctive fungal communities in an obligate African ant-plant mutualism.

scientific article published in March 2017

Evolution of specialized spermatheca morphology in ant queens: insight from comparative developmental biology between ants and polistine wasps

scientific article published on 15 September 2009

Comparative morphology of cephalic exocrine glands among castes of the black ant Lasius niger

scientific article published on 30 January 2007

Morphology and ultrastructure of the Dufour gland in workers of social wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae).

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