Publications

Preprints & in-review

Ebi Antony-George*, Alba Motes-Rodrigo*, Laurent Keller°, Frank ET°. Social and spatial affinity drive wound caring in transitioning ants. In preparation. *shared first authorship, °shared last authorship

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

Fujimoto S*, Lagos Oviedo JJ*, Seibel F, Puille L, Nußer R, Corcoran E, Schmitt T, Frank ET. Better safe than sorry: leg amputations as prophylactic wound care behaviour in ants. Submitted. *shared first authorship

Scheiner R, Thamm M, Loidoilt F, Frank ET. Division of labor during termite hunts correlates with PKG encoding foraging gene expression in Megaponera analis ants. Submitted.

Vizueta J, Xion Z, … GAGA consortium*, … Boomsma JJ, Zhang G. The adaptive radiation and social evolution of ants. Accepted (Cell). *Frank ET is a member of the GAGA consortium

Katzke, Garcia FH, … GAGA consortium*, Economo EP, van de Kamp T. Antscan: high-throughput synchrotron micro-CT scanning across the ant tree of life. Accepted (Nature methods). *Frank ET is a member of the GAGA consortium

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)