Spatial organization and division of labour in the bumblebee Bombus impatiens

By J. Jandt, Anna R. Dornhaus. 2009

156 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Anna R. Dornhaus
2. Eden Huang
3. J. Jandt
4. Karl Crailsheim
5. Thomas Schmickl
6. C. Holbrook
7. J. Fewell
8. S. Fuchs

In Genetics

1. Eden Huang
2. Anna R. Dornhaus
3. J. Jandt
4. Karl Crailsheim
5. Thomas Schmickl
6. J. Fewell
7. S. Fuchs
8. Robert Brodschneider

In Insect Science

1. Eden Huang
2. Anna R. Dornhaus
3. J. Jandt
4. Karl Crailsheim
5. Thomas Schmickl
6. J. Fewell
7. S. Fuchs
8. Robert Brodschneider

Citations in the corpus

• Division of labor increases with colony size in the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex californicus (2011, background): “Body size is correlated with task performance in ants with polymorphic workers (Oster and Wilson 1978; Hölldobler and Wilson 1990), and to a lesser extent, in some social insects lacking distinct physical worker subcastes (Schwander et al. 2005; Jandt and Dornhaus 2009).”
• Weak specialization of workers inside a bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) nest (2009, methodology): “Previously, we have shown that age plays a small role in allocation of in-nest tasks among B. impatiens workers (Jandt and Dornhaus 2009).”
• Standard methods for behavioural studies of Apis mellifera (2013, background): “Bumble bees can be kept in a wooden cube with a transparent top for easy viewing (Jandt and Dornhaus, 2009; Jandt et al., 2009).”
• The Physiological and Genomic Bases of Bumble Bee Social Behaviour (2015, background): “…studies suggested that worker division of labour in bumble bees is more flexible than many other social insects (Doorn van and Heringa, 1986; Jandt and Dornhaus, 2009; O’Donnell et al., 2000; Yerushalmi et al., 2006), bumble bee workers do exhibit task specialization (Doorn van, 1986) that…”
• Neonicotinoids in bees: a review on concentrations, side-effects and risk assessment (2012, background): “For example in bumble bees (B. impatiens) task division is a dynamic process (weak task specialization) and so workers perform multiple tasks during their lifespan (Jandt and Dornhaus 2009).”