MJ Couvillon, JP Caple, SL Endsor, M Kärcher, TE Russell, DE Storey, FLW Ratnieks (2007). Nest-mate recognition template of guard honeybees (Apis mellifera) is modified by wax comb transfer. Biology Letters 3(3), 228-230.
MJ Couvillon, T Wenseleers, VL Imperatriz-Fonseca, P Nogueira-Neto, FLW Ratnieks. Comparative Study in Stingless Bees (Meliponini) Demonstrates that Nest Entrance Size Predicts Traffic and Defensivity. Journal of Evolutionary Biology (accepted).
MJ Couvillon, GGF Roy, FLW Ratnieks. Recognition errors by honey bee (Apis mellifera) guards demonstrate overlapping cues in conspecific recognition. Genetics and Molecular Research (accepted).
MJ Couvillon & FLW Ratnieks. Odour transfer between colonies of the stingless bee Frieseomelitta varia demonstrates that entrance guards use an “undesirable-absent” cue recognition system. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology (accepted).
JA Perez-Sato, WO Hughes, MJ Couvillon, FLW Ratnieks (2007) Improved technique for introducing four-day old virgin queens to mating hives that uses artificial and natural queen cells for introduction. Journal of Apiculture Research, 46 (1), 28-33
MJ Couvillon, EJH Robinson, B Atkins, L Child, KR Dent, and FLW Ratnieks. En Guarde: Rapid changes in honey bee guarding to intense robbing demonstrates individual and colony level responses. (submitted)
A Tofilski, MJ Couvillon, SE Evison, EJH Robinson, and FLW Ratnieks. Pre-emptive defensive self-sacrifice by ant workers. (submitted).
JA Perez-Sato, MJ Couvillon, WO Hughes, FLW Ratnieks. Effects of hive separation distance, entrance orientation, and worker activity on drifting by honey bee queens on nuptial flights. (submitted)
MJ Couvillon, WO Hughes, JA Perez-Sato, SJ Martin, and FLW Ratnieks. Does size matter? Reproductive success of large and small males in honey bees demonstrates the effect of sexual selection on reproductive behaviour and intracolony conflict. In preparation.
T Wenseleers, J Bacon, MJ Couvillon, M Karcher, FS Nascimento, P Nogueiro-Neto, EJH Robinson, A Tofilski, and FLW Ratnieks. Bourgeois behaviour and freeloading in the colonial orb-web spider Parawixia bistriata (Araneae, Araneidae). In preparation.
WO Hughes, MJ Couvillon, BP Oldroyd, JA Perez-Sato, and FLW Ratnieks. Does the honeybee mating sign stop sperm dumping by the queen? In preparation.
