Publications

Preprints & in-review

Ebi Antony-George*, Alba Motes-Rodrigo*, Laurent Keller°, Frank ET°. Familiarity drives wound care provisioning in ants. In preparation. *shared first authorship, °shared last authorship

Frank ET, Bhat V, Mitesser O, Hovestadt T. Understanding the raiding strategies of predatory ants. In preparation.

Fujimoto S*, Lagos Oviedo JJ*, Seibel F, Puille L, Nußer R, Corcoran E, Schmitt T, Frank ET. The limits of limb amputations in infection prevention in Camponotus maculatus. In preparation. *shared first authorship

Peer-reviewed

2024

Cassandra V*, Schumacher NC*, Peeters M, Linsenmair KE, Frank ET (2024). Ant assemblages in a West African Forest-Savannah mosaic (Côte d’Ivoire). Basic and Applied Ecology, 81:35-43. doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2024.10.003 (link)

Beydizada NI, Abels A, Schultheiss P, Frank ET (2024). Injury dependent wound care behaviour in the desert ant Cataglyphis nodus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 78:97. doi:10.1007/s00265-024-03511-1 (link)

Frank ET, Buffat D, Liberti J, Aibekova L, Economo EP, Keller L (2024). Wound dependent leg amputations to combat infections in an ant society. Current Biology, 34:14 3273-3278. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.06.021 (link)

Liberti J, Frank ET, Kay T, Kesner L, Monié-Ibanes M, Quinn A, Schmitt T, Keller L, Engel P (2024). Gut microbiota influences onset of foraging-related behavior but not physiological hallmarks of division of labor in honeybees. mBio, 0:e01034-24. doi: 10.1128/mbio.01034-24 (link)

2023

Frank ET, Kesner L, Liberti J, Helleu Q, LeBoeuf AC, Dascalu A, Sponsler DB, Azuma F, Economo PE, Waridel P, Engel P, Schmitt T,  Keller L (2023). Targeted treatment of injured nestmates with antimicrobial compounds in an ant society. Nature Communications, 14:8446. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-43885-w (link)

Schwarz CJ, Pohl M, Frank ET. A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea). Zootaxa, 5373 (1): 001-064. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1 (link)

Li Z, Bhat B, Frank ET, Oliveira-Honorato T, Azuma F, Bachmann V, Parker DJ, Schmitt T, Economo E, Ulrich Y (2023). Behavioural individuality determines infection risk in clonal ant colonies. Nature Communications 14:5233. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40983-7 (link)

Lopes LE, Frank ET, Schmitt T, Kronauer DJC (2023). The alarm pheromone and alarm response of the clonal raider ant. Journal of Chemical Ecology 49:1-10. doi:10.1007/s10886-023-01407-4 (link)

Pohl M, Frank ET, Gadau J (2023). Socio- and population genetic analyses of two West-African ponerine species (Megaponera analis and Paltothyreus tarsatus) with winged and wingless queens. Myrmecological News 33:77-89. doi:10.25849/myrmecol.news_033:077 (link)

2022

Liberti J, Kay T, Quinn A, Kesner L, Frank ET, Cabirol A, Richardson TO, Engel P, Keller L (2022). The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees. Nature Ecology and Evolution 6:1471-1479.  doi: 10.1101/2021.12.31.474534 (link)

2021

Alciatore G, Ugelvig LV, Frank ET, Bidaux J, Gal A, Schmitt T, Kronauer DJC, Ulrich Y (2021) Immune challenges increase network centrality in a queenless ant. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288:20211456. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1456 (link)

2020

Yusuf AA, Frank ET, Fombong AT, Pirk CWW, Crewe RM, Schmitt T, Strube-Bloss M, Gordon I, Torto B (2020) Odour-mediated group organization and coordination in the termite raiding and Megaponera analis (Mayr). Chemical Senses, 45:635–644, doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjaa058 (Link)

2018

Frank ET, Wehrhahn M, Linsenmair KE (2018). Wound treatment and selective help in a termite-hunting ant. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285:20172457. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2457 (Link)

Frank ET, Hönle PO,  Linsenmair KE (2018). Time optimized path-choice in the termite hunting ant Megaponera analis. Journal of Experimental Biology. doi: 10.1242/jeb.174854 (Link)

2017

Frank ET, Schmitt T, Hovestadt T, Mitesser O, Stiegler J, Linsenmair KE (2017). Saving the injured: rescue behavior in the termite-hunting ant Megaponera analis, Science Advances 3:e1602187. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1602187 (Link)

Frank ET, Linsenmair KE (2017). Individual versus collective decision making: optimal foraging in the group-hunting termite specialist Megaponera analis, Animal Behaviour 130:27–35. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.06.010 (Link)

Frank ET, Linsenmair KE (2017). Flexible task allocation and raid organization in the termite-hunting ant Megaponera analis, Insectes Sociaux 64:579–589, doi: 10.1007/s00040-017-0579-2 (Link)

Frank ET, Linsenmair KE (2017). Saving the injured: convergent evolution and mechanisms, Communicative and Integrative Biology, e1356516. doi: 10.1080/19420889.2017.1356516 (Link)