Csata E, Perez-Escudero A, Laury E, Leitner H, Latil G, Heinze J, Simpson S, Cremer S, Dussutour A. 2024. Fungal infection alters collective nutritional intake of ant colonies. Current Biology. 34(4), 902–909.e6.

Habig M, Grasse AV, Müller J, Stukenbrock EH, Leitner H, Cremer S. 2024. Frequent horizontal chromosome transfer between asexual fungal insect pathogens. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121(11), e2316284121.

Cremer S, Pull C. 2024. Unconditional versus condition-dependent social immunity. Trends in Parasitology.

Viljakainen L, Fürst M, Grasse AV, Jurvansuu J, Oh J, Tolonen L, Eder T, Rattei T, Cremer S. 2023. Antiviral immune response reveals host-specific virus infections in natural ant populations. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14, 1119002.

Casillas Perez BE, Bodova K, Grasse AV, Tkadik G, Cremer S. 2023. Dynamic pathogen detection and social feedback shape collective hygiene in ants. Nature Communications. 14, 3232.

Stock M, Milutinovic B, Hönigsberger M, Grasse AV, Wiesenhofer F, Kampleitner N, Narasimhan M, Schmitt T, Cremer S. 2023. Pathogen evasion of social immunity. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 7, 450–460.

Wagner B, Slipogor V, Oh J, Varga M, Hoeschele M. 2023. A comparison between common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) and human infants sheds light on traits proposed to be at the root of human octave equivalence. Developmental Science. 26(5), e13395.

Metzler S, Kirchner J, Grasse AV, Cremer S. 2023. Trade-offs between immunity and competitive ability in fighting ant males. BMC Ecology and Evolution. 23, 37.

Stockmaier S, Ulrich Y, Albery GF, Cremer S, Lopes PC. 2023. Behavioural defences against parasites across host social structures. Functional Ecology. 37(4), 809–820.

Franschitz A. 2023. Individual and social immunity against viral infections in ants. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

Cremer S, Sixt MK. 2022. Principles of disease defence in organisms, superorganisms and societies. Nature Reviews Immunology. 22(12), 713–714.

Casillas Perez BE, Pull C, Naiser F, Naderlinger E, Matas J, Cremer S. 2022. Early queen infection shapes developmental dynamics and induces long-term disease protection in incipient ant colonies. Ecology Letters. 25(1), 89–100.

Metzler S. 2022. Pathogen-mediated sexual selection and immunization in ant colonies. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

Reber SA, Oh J, Janisch J, Stevenson C, Foggett S, Wilkinson A. 2021. Early life differences in behavioral predispositions in two Alligatoridae species. Animal Cognition. 24(4), 753–764.

Goehlich H, Sartoris L, Wagner K-S, Wendling CC, Roth O. 2021. Pipefish locally adapted to low salinity in the Baltic Sea retain phenotypic plasticity to cope with ancestral salinity levels. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 9, 626442.

Szabo B, Mangione R, Rath M, Pasukonis A, Reber S, Oh J, Ringler M, Ringler E. 2021. Naïve poison frog tadpoles use bi-modal cues to avoid insect predators but not heterospecific predatory tadpoles. Journal of Experimental Biology. 224(24), jeb243647.

Schmid-Hempel P, Cremer S. 2020.Parasites and Pathogens. In: Encyclopedia of Social Insects. .

Narasimhan M, Johnson AJ, Prizak R, Kaufmann W, Tan S, Casillas Perez BE, Friml J. 2020. Evolutionarily unique mechanistic framework of clathrin-mediated endocytosis in plants. eLife. 9, e52067.

Milutinovic B, Stock M, Grasse AV, Naderlinger E, Hilbe C, Cremer S. 2020. Social immunity modulates competition between coinfecting pathogens. Ecology Letters. 23(3), 565–574.

Kutzer M, Kurtz J, Armitage SAO. 2019. A multi-faceted approach testing the effects of previous bacterial exposure on resistance and tolerance. Journal of Animal Ecology. 88(4), 566–578.

Cremer S. 2019. Pathogens and disease defense of invasive ants. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 33, 63–68.

Cremer S. 2019. Social immunity in insects. Current Biology. 29(11), 8–3.

Cremer S, Kutzer M. 2019.Social immunity. In: Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. , 747–755.

Casillas Perez BE. 2019. Collective defenses of garden ants against a fungal pathogen. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

Konrad M, Pull C, Metzler S, Seif K, Naderlinger E, Grasse AV, Cremer S. 2018. Ants avoid superinfections by performing risk-adjusted sanitary care. PNAS. 115(11), 2782–2787.

Pull C, Ugelvig LV, Wiesenhofer F, Grasse AV, Tragust S, Schmitt T, Brown M, Cremer S. 2018. Destructive disinfection of infected brood prevents systemic disease spread in ant colonies. eLife. 7, e32073.

Kutzer M, Kurtz J, Armitage S. 2018. Genotype and diet affect resistance, survival, and fecundity but not fecundity tolerance. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 31(1), 159–171.

Metzler S, Schrempf A, Heinze J. 2018. Individual- and ejaculate-specific sperm traits in ant males. Journal of Insect Physiology. 107, 284–290.

Liutkeviciute Z, Gil Mansilla E, Eder T, Casillas Perez BE, Giulia Di Giglio M, Muratspahi E, Grebien F, Rattei T, Muttenthaler M, Cremer S, Gruber C. 2018. Oxytocin-like signaling in ants influences metabolic gene expression and locomotor activity. The FASEB Journal. 32(12), 6808–6821.

Pull C, Metzler S, Naderlinger E, Cremer S. 2018. Protection against the lethal side effects of social immunity in ants. Current Biology. 28(19), 39–40.

Viljakainen L, Jurvansuu J, Holmberg I, Pamminger T, Erler S, Cremer S. 2018. Social environment affects the transcriptomic response to bacteria in ant queens. Ecology and Evolution. 8(22), 11031–11070.

Cremer S, Pull C, Fürst M. 2018. Social immunity: Emergence and evolution of colony-level disease protection. Annual Review of Entomology. 63, 105–123.

Stroeymeyt N, Grasse AV, Crespi A, Mersch D, Cremer S, Keller L. 2018. Social network plasticity decreases disease transmission in a eusocial insect. Science. 362(6417), 941–945.

Greenwood J, Milutinovic B, Peuß R, Behrens S, Essar D, Rosenstiel P, Schulenburg H, Kurtz J. 2017. Oral immune priming with Bacillus thuringiensis induces a shift in the gene expression of Tribolium castaneum larvae. BMC Genomics. 18(1), 329.

Giehr J, Grasse AV, Cremer S, Heinze J, Schrempf A. 2017. Ant queens increase their reproductive efforts after pathogen infection. Royal Society Open Science. 4(7), 170547.

Kennedy P, Baron G, Qiu B, Freitak D, Helantera H, Hunt E, Manfredini F, O’Shea Wheller T, Patalano S, Pull C, Sasaki T, Taylor D, Wyatt C, Sumner S. 2017. Deconstructing superorganisms and societies to address big questions in biology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 32(11), 861–872.

Pull C. 2017. Disease defence in garden ants. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

Pull C, Cremer S. 2017. Co-founding ant queens prevent disease by performing prophylactic undertaking behaviour. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17(1), 219.

Cremer S. 2017. Invasive Ameisen in Europa: Wie sie sich ausbreiten und die heimische Fauna verändern. Rundgespräche Forum Ökologie. 46, 105–116.

Futo M, Sell M, Kutzer M, Kurtz J. 2017. Specificity of oral immune priming in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Biology Letters. 13(12), 0632.

Metzler S, Heinze J, Schrempf A. 2016. Mating and longevity in ant males. Ecology and Evolution. 6(24), 8903–8906.

Milutinovic B, Peuß R, Ferro K, Kurtz J. 2016. Immune priming in arthropods: an update focusing on the red flour beetle. Zoology . 119(4), 254–261.

Peuß R, Wensing K, Woestmann L, Eggert H, Milutinovic B, Sroka M, Scharsack J, Kurtz J, Armitage S. 2016. Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule 1: Testing for a role in insect immunity, behaviour and reproduction. Royal Society Open Science. 3(4), 160138.

Milutinovic B, Kurtz J. 2016. Immune memory in invertebrates. Seminars in Immunology. 28(4), 328–342.

Tartally A, Kelager A, Fürst M, Nash D. 2016. Host plant use drives genetic differentiation in syntopic populations of Maculinea alcon. PeerJ. 2016(3), 1865.

Mcmahon D, Natsopoulou M, Doublet V, Fürst M, Weging S, Brown M, Gogol Döring A, Paxton R. 2016. Elevated virulence of an emerging viral genotype as a driver of honeybee loss. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences. 283(1833), 20160811.

El Masri L, Branca A, Sheppard A, Papkou A, Laehnemann D, Guenther P, Prahl S, Saebelfeld M, Hollensteiner J, Liesegang H, Brzuszkiewicz E, Daniel R, Michiels N, Schulte R, Kurtz J, Rosenstiel P, Telschow A, Bornberg Bauer E, Schulenburg H. 2015. Host–pathogen coevolution: The selective advantage of Bacillus thuringiensis virulence and its cry toxin genes. PLoS Biology. 13(6), 1–30.

Milutinovic B, Höfling C, Futo M, Scharsack J, Kurtz J. 2015. Infection of Tribolium castaneum with Bacillus thuringiensis: Quantification of bacterial replication within cadavers, transmission via cannibalism, and inhibition of spore germination. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 81(23), 8135–8144.

Kappeler P, Cremer S, Nunn C. 2015. Sociality and health: Impacts of sociality on disease susceptibility and transmission in animal and human societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 370(1669), 20140116.

Novak S, Cremer S. 2015. Fungal disease dynamics in insect societies: Optimal killing rates and the ambivalent effect of high social interaction rates. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 372(5), 54–64.

Mcmahon D, Fürst M, Caspar J, Theodorou P, Brown M, Paxton R. 2015. A sting in the spit: Widespread cross-infection of multiple RNA viruses across wild and managed bees. Journal of Animal Ecology. 84(3), 615–624.

Theis F, Ugelvig LV, Marr C, Cremer S. 2015. Opposing effects of allogrooming on disease transmission in ant societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 370(1669).

Konrad M, Grasse AV, Tragust S, Cremer S. 2015. Anti-pathogen protection versus survival costs mediated by an ectosymbiont in an ant host. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences. 282(1799), 20141976.

Stock M. 2014. Evolution of a fungal pathogen towards individual versus social immunity in ants. IST Austria.

El Masri L, Cremer S. 2014. Individual and social immunisation in insects. Trends in Immunology. 35(10), 471–482.

Fürst M, Mcmahon D, Osborne J, Paxton R, Brown M. 2014. Disease associations between honeybees and bumblebees as a threat to wild pollinators. Nature. 506(7488), 364–366.

Wolf S, Mcmahon D, Lim K, Pull C, Clark S, Paxton R, Osborne J. 2014. So near and yet so far: Harmonic radar reveals reduced homing ability of Nosema infected honeybees. PLoS One. 9(8), e103989.

Westhus C, Ugelvig LV, Tourdot E, Heinze J, Doums C, Cremer S. 2014. Increased grooming after repeated brood care provides sanitary benefits in a clonal ant. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 68(10), 1701–1710.

Konrad M. 2014. Immune defences in ants: Effects of social immunisation and a fungal ectosymbiont in the ant Lasius neglectus. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

Cremer S. 2014. Gemeinsame Krankheitsabwehr in Ameisengesellschaften. Zoologie., 23–30.

Cremer S. 2014.Soziale Immunität: Wie sich der Staat gegen Pathogene wehrt  Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. In: Soziale Insekten in einer sich wandelnden Welt. Rundgespräche der Kommission für Ökologie, vol. 43, 65–72.

Tobler M, Plath M, Riesch R, Schlupp I, Grasse AV, Munimanda G, Setzer C, Penn D, Moodley Y. 2014. Selection from parasites favours immunogenetic diversity but not divergence among locally adapted host populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 27(5), 960–974.

Stroeymeyt N, Casillas Perez BE, Cremer S. 2014. Organisational immunity in social insects. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 5(1), 1–15.

Pull C, Hughes W, Brown M. 2013. Tolerating an infection: an indirect benefit of co-founding queen associations in the ant Lasius niger . Naturwissenschaften. 100(12), 1125–1136.

Tragust S, Ugelvig LV, Chapuisat M, Heinze J, Cremer S. 2013. Pupal cocoons affect sanitary brood care and limit fungal infections in ant colonies. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13(1), 225.

Tragust S, Mitteregger B, Barone V, Konrad M, Ugelvig LV, Cremer S. 2013. Ants disinfect fungus-exposed brood by oral uptake and spread of their poison. Current Biology. 23(1), 76–82.

Ugelvig LV, Cremer S. 2012. Effects of social immunity and unicoloniality on host parasite interactions in invasive insect societies. Functional Ecology. 26(6), 1300–1312.

Cremer S, Suefuji M, Schrempf A, Heinze J. 2012. The dynamics of male-male competition in Cardiocondyla obscurior ants. BMC Ecology. 12, 7.

Konrad M, Pamminger T, Foitzik S. 2012. Two pathways ensuring social harmony. Naturwissenschaften. 99(8), 627–636.

Vyleta M, Wong J, Magun B. 2012. Suppression of ribosomal function triggers innate immune signaling through activation of the NLR inflammasome. PLoS One. 7(5), e36044.

Ugelvig LV, Andersen A, Boomsma J, Nash D. 2012. Dispersal and gene flow in the rare parasitic Large Blue butterfly Maculinea arion. Molecular Ecology. 21(13), 3224–3236.

Konrad M, Vyleta M, Theis F, Stock M, Tragust S, Klatt M, Drescher V, Marr C, Ugelvig LV, Cremer S. 2012. Social transfer of pathogenic fungus promotes active immunisation in ant colonies. PLoS Biology. 10(4), e1001300.

Ugelvig LV, Nielsen P, Boomsma J, Nash D. 2011. Reconstructing eight decades of genetic variation in an isolated Danish population of the large blue butterfly Maculinea arion. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11(201), 201.

Schrempf A, Cremer S, Heinze J. 2011. Social influence on age and reproduction reduced lifespan and fecundity in multi queen ant colonies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 24(7), 1455–1461.

Cremer S, Schrempf A, Heinze J. 2011. Competition and opportunity shape the reproductive tactics of males in the ant Cardiocondyla obscurior. PLoS One. 6(3), e17323.