Social insect colonies have evolved collective immune defences against parasites. These ‘social
immune systems' result from the cooperation of the individual group members to …

▪ Abstract Evolutionary ecology seeks to understand the selective reasons for the design
features of the immune defense, especially with respect to parasitism. The molecular processes …

… Schmid-Hempel and two anonymous reviewers provided suggestions and valuable
comments. This work was financially supported by the Swiss NSF (no. 3100-66733.01). …

This book analyzes for the first time how parasites shape the biology of social insects: the
ants, wasps, bees, and termites. Paul Schmid-Hempel provides an overview of the existing …

… a similar effect (comparing low-LPS with high-LPS: P = 0.85). Survival was also affected
by colony of origin (P < 0.001) and its interaction with injection of beads (P < 0.001) and LPS (…

… Y Ulrich, BM Sadd, P Schmid-Hempel, Strain filtering and transmission of a mixed infection
in a … , P Schmid-Hempel, Shared use of flowers leads to horizontal pathogen transmission. P …

… University Press in the UK and in certain other countries O Paul Schmid-Hempel 2021 …
Paul Schmid-Hempel November 2020 ETH Zürich, Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ), and …

Deformed wing virus (DWV) and its vector, the mite Varroa destructor, are a major threat to
the world’s honeybees. Although the impact of Varroa on colony-level DWV epidemiology is …

Arising from MA Nowak, CE Tarnita & EO Wilson Nature466, 1057–1062 (2010)10.1038/nature09205
; Nowak et al. reply Nowak et al. argue that inclusive fitness theory has been of …

Evolutionary ecology has developed along two major conceptual avenues, starting from the
observation that hosts vary in their immune defence against parasites The first avenue, …