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Li, Z., Bhat, B., Frank, E.T., Oliveira-Honorato, T., Azuma, F., Bachmann, V., Parker, D. J., Schmitt, T., Economo, E., Ulrich, Y. (2023): Behavioural individuality determines infection risk in clonal ant colonies. Nature Communications. DOI 10.1038/s41467-023-40983-7
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Stockmaier, S., Ulrich, Y., Albery, G. F., Cremer, S., Lopes, P. C. (2023): Behavioural defences against parasites across host social structures. Functional Ecology. DOI 10.1111/1365-2435.14310
Jud, S., Knebel, D., Ulrich, Y. (2022): Intergenerational genotypic interactions drive collective behavioural cycles in a social insect. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B. DOI 10.1098/rspb.2022.1273
Kay, T., Alciatore, G., La Mendola, C., Reuter, M., Ulrich, Y., Keller, L. (2022): A complete absence of indirect genetic effects on brain gene expression in a highly social context. Molecular Ecology. DOI 10.1111/mec.16686
Alciatore, G., Ugelvig, L.V., Frank, E., Bidaux, J., Gal, A., Schmitt, T., Kronauer, D.J.C. Ulrich, Y. (2021): Individual immune status affects network position in a queenless ant. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B. DOI 10.1098/rspb.2021.1456
Fetter-Pruneda, I., Hart, T., Ulrich, Y., Gal, A., Oxley, P.R., Olivos-Cisneros, L., Ebert, M.S., Kazmi, M.A., Garrison, J.L., Bargmann, C.I., Kronauer, D.J.C. (2021): An oxytocin/vasopressin-related neuropeptide modulates social foraging behavior in the clonal raider ant. PLoS Biology. DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001305
Ulrich, Y*., Kawakatsu, M.*, Tokita, C.K., Saragosti, J., Chandra, V., Tarnita, C.E**, Kronauer, D.J.C.** (2021): Response thresholds alone cannot explain empirical patterns of division of labor in social insects. PLoS Biology. DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001269. (*, **: equal contributions).
Ulrich, Y., Saragosti, J., Tokita, C.K., Tarnita, C.E, Kronauer, D.J.C. (2018): Fitness benefits and emergent division of labor at the onset of group-living. Nature. DOI 10.1038/s41586-018-0422-6.
Ulrich, Y., Burns, D., Libbrecht, R., Kronauer, D.J.C. (2016): Ant larvae regulate worker foraging behavior and ovarian activity in a dose-dependent manner. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. DOI 10.1007/s00265-015-2046-2.
Ulrich, Y., Schmid-Hempel, P. (2015): The distribution of parasite strains among hosts affects disease spread in a social insect. Infection, Genetics and Evolution. DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2015.04.002
Ulrich, Y., Schmid-Hempel, P. (2012): Host modulation of parasite competition in multiple infections. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B. DOI 10.1098/rspb.2012.0474
Ulrich, Y., Sadd, B. M., Schmid-Hempel, P. (2011): Strain filtering and transmission of a mixed infection in a social insect. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. DOI 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02172.x
Ulrich, Y., Perrin, N., Chapuisat, M. (2009): Flexible social organization and high incidence of drifting in the sweat bee, Halictus scabiosae. Molecular Ecology. DOI 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04154.x
Berset-Brändli, L., Jaquiéry, J., Broquet, T., Ulrich, Y., Perrin, N. (2008): Extreme heterochiasmy and nascent sex chromosomes in European tree frogs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B. DOI 10.1098/rspb.2008.0298