Publications LS Biologie I (peer-reviewed) 2008 - 2012



Fokuhl G, Heinze J, Poschlod P (2012) Myrmecochory by small ants - beneficial effects through elaiosome nutrition and seed dispersal. Acta Oecol 38: 71-76

Trettin J, Haubner M, Buschinger  A, Heinze J (2011) Queen dominance and worker policing control reproduction in a threatened ant. BMC Ecology 11:21

El-Shehaby M, Salama MS, Brunner E, Heinze J (2011) Cuticular hydrocarbons in two parapatric species of ants and their hybrid. Integr Zool 6: 259-265

Schrempf A, Cremer S, Heinze J (2011) Social influence on age and reproduction: reduced lifespan and fecundity in multi-queen ant colonies. J evol Biol 24: 1455–1461

Grunewald TGP, Herbst SM, Heinze J, Burdach S (2011) Understanding tumor heterogeneity as functional compartments - superorganisms revisited. J translat Med 9: 79

Kellner K, Heinze J (2011) Absence of nepotism in genetically heterogeneous colonies of a clonal ant. Ethology 117: 556–564

Seal J, Kellner K, Heinze J (2011) Phylogeography of the parthenogenic ant, Platythyrea punctata: highly successful colonization of the West Indies by a poor disperser. J Biogeogr 38: 868–882

Wurm Y, Wang J, Riba-Grognuz O, Corona M, Nygaard S, Hunt BG, Ingram KK, Falquet L, Nipitwattanaphon M, Gotzek D, Dijkstra MB, Oettler K, Comtesse F, Shih C-J, Wu W-J, Yang C-C, Thomas J, Beaudoing E, Pradervand S, Flegel V, Cook ED, Fabbretti R, Stockinger H, Long L, Farmerie WG, Oakey J, Harkins T, Boomsma JJ, Pamilo P, Yi SV, Heinze J, Goodisman MAD, Farinelli L, Harshman K, Hulo N, Cerutti L, Xenarios I, Shoemaker DW, Keller L (2011) The genome of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108: 5679-5684

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

Suefuji M, Trindl A, Heinze J (2011) Characterization of 13 microsatellite markers for the threatened, slave-making ant Myrmoxenus ravouxi (Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Cons Genet Res 3: 229-231

Brunner E, Kroiss J, Trindl A, Heinze J (2011) Queen pheromones in Temnothorax ant species: queen control or honest signals? BMC Evol Biol 11: 55

Walter B, Brunner E, Heinze J (2011) Policing effectiveness depends on relatedness and group size. Am Nat 177: 368-376

Kellner K, Heinze J (2011) Mechanism of facultative parthenogenesis in the ant Platythyrea punctata. Evol Ecol 25: 77-89

Heinze J, Weber M (2011) Lethal sibling rivalry for nest inheritance among virgin ant queens. J Ethol 29: 197-201

Oettler J, Suefuji M, Heinze J (2010) The evolution of alternative reproductive tactics in male Cardiocondyla ants.Evolution 64: 3310–3317

Cuesta, J.A., G. Guerao, C.D. Schubart & K. Anger, 2010. Morphology and growth of the larval stages of Geograpsus lividus (Crustacea, Brachyura), with the descriptions of new larval characters for the Grapsidae and an undescribed setation pattern in extended developments. Acta Zoologica online first (doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.2010.00482.x).

von Rintelen, K., M. Glaubrecht, C.D. Schubart, A. Wessel & T. von Rintelen, 2010. Adaptive radiation and ecological diversification of Sulawesi’s ancient lake shrimps. Evolution 64 (11): 3287-3299 (doi: j.1558-5646.2010.01043.x).

Koller, P., H.-C. Liu & C.D. Schubart, 2010. A new semiterrestrial species of the genus Parasesarma De Man, 1895, from Taiwan (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae). In: Studies on Malacostraca. Crustaceana Monographs 12: 357-368.

Klaus, S., C.D. Schubart, B. Streit, M. Pfenninger, 2010. When Indian crabs were not yet Asian – biogeographic evidence for Eocene proximity of India and Southeast Asia. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 287: 1-9. (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/287)

Schubart, C.D., T. Weil, J.T. Stenderup, K.A. Crandall & T. Santl, 2010. Ongoing phenotypic and genotypic diversification in adaptively radiated freshwater crabs from Jamaica. In: M. Glaubrecht (ed.). Evolution in Action - Adaptive Radiations and the Origins of Biodiversity. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Pp. 323-349.

Dennenmoser, S., M. Thiel & C.D. Schubart, 2010. High genetic variability without geographic structuring in the mtDNA of the amphidromous river shrimp Cryphiops caementarius (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) in northern-central Chile. Journal of Crustacean Biology 30(4): 763-767.

Schubart, C.D. & J.A. Cuesta, 2010. Phylogenetic relationships of the Plagusiidae Dana, 1851, (Brachyura) with description of a new genus and recognition of Percnidae Števčić, 2005, as an independent family. In: P. Castro, P.J.F. Davie, P.K.L. Ng & B. Richer de Forges (eds.). Studies on Brachyura: a Homage to Danièle Guinot. Crustaceana Monographs 11: 279-299.

Reuschel, S., J.A. Cuesta & C.D. Schubart, 2010. Marine biogeographic boundaries and human introduction along the European coast revealed by phylogeography of the prawn Palaemon elegans. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55: 765-775.

Naderloo, R. & C.D. Schubart, 2010. Description of a new species of Parasesarma (Crustacea; Decapoda; Brachyura; Sesarmidae), based on morphological and genetic characteristics from the Persian Gulf. Zoologischer Anzeiger 249: 33-43.

Ragionieri, L., S. Cannici, C.D. Schubart & S. Fratini, 2010. Gene flow and demographic history of the mangrove crab Neosarmatium meinerti: A case study from the western Indian Ocean, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 86: 179-188.

González-Gordillo, J.I., Anger, K. & Schubart, C.D., 2010. Morphology of the larval and first juvenile stages of two Jamaican endemic crab species with abbreviated development, Sesarma windsor and Metopaulias depressus (Decapoda, Brachyura, Sesarmidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 30(1): 101-121.

Landstorfer, R.B. & C.D. Schubart, 2010. A phylogeny of Pacific fiddler crabs of the subgenus Minuca (Crustacea, Brachyura, Ocypodidae: Uca) with the description of a new species from a tropical gulf in Pacific Costa Rica. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 48(3): 213-218. (online first 2009 doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2009.00554.x)

Projecto-Garcia, J., H. Cabral & C.D. Schubart, 2010. High regional differentiation in a North American crab species throughout its native range and invaded European waters: a phylogeographic analysis. Biological Invasions 12: 253-263.

Oppelt A, Humann FC, Fuessl M, Azevedo SV, Antonio DSM, Heinze J, Hartfelder K (2010) Suppression subtractive hybridization analysis reveals expression of conserved and novel genes in male accessory glands of the ant Leptothorax gredleri. BMC Evol Biol 20: 273

Ugelvig L, Kronauer D, Schrempf A, Heinze J, Cremer S (2010) Rapid anti-pathogen response in ant societies relies on high genetic diversity. Proc R Soc Lond B 277: 2821-2828

Heinze J, Schmidt CV, Nugroho H, Seifert B (2010) Wingless fighter males in the Wallacean ant Cardiocondyla nigrocerea (Insecta: Formicidae). Raffl Bull Zool 58: 323–328

Barth B, Kellner K, Heinze J (2010) The police are not the army: context-dependent aggressiveness in a clonal ant. Biol Lett 6: 329-332

Heinze J (2010) Conflict and conflict resolution in social insects. In: Kappeler P (ed) Animal behaviour: evolution and mechanisms. Springer, Heidelberg, 151-178

Kellner K, Barth B, Heinze J (2010) Colony fusion causes within-colony variation in a parthenogenetic ant. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 64:737–746

Heinze J, Walter B (2010) Moribund ants leave their nests to die in social isolation. Curr Biol 20: 249–252

Kellner K, Brunner E, Heinze J (2009) Policing and dominance behaviour in the parthenogenetic ant Platythyrea punctata. Anim Behav 78: 1427–1431

Frohschammer S, Heinze J (2009) A heritable component in sex ratio and caste determination in a Cardiocondyla ant. Front Zool 6: 27

Brunner E, Heinze J (2009) Worker dominance and policing in the ant Temnothorax unifasciatus. Insectes soc 56: 397-404

Silva, I.C., N. Mesquita, C.D. Schubart, M.J. Alves & J. Paula, 2009. Genetic patchiness of the shore crab Pachygrapsus marmoratus along the Portuguese coast. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 378: 50-57.

Jesse, R., M. Pfenninger, S. Fratini, M. Scalici, B. Streit & C.D. Schubart, 2009. Disjunct distribution of the freshwater crab Potamon fluviatile – natural expansion or human introduction? Biological Invasions 11(10): 2209-2221.

Ragionieri, L., S. Fratini, M. Vannini & C.D. Schubart, 2009. Phylogenetic and morphometric differentiation reveal geographic radiation and pseudo-cryptic speciation in a mangrove crab from the Indo-West Pacific. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52: 825-834.

Schubart, C.D., H.-C. Liu, & P.K.L. Ng, 2009. Revision of Selatium Serène & Soh, 1970 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae), with description of a new genus and two new species. Zootaxa 2154: 1-29.

Naderloo, R. & C.D. Schubart, 2009. Redescription and mitochondrial identification of Chiromantes boulengeri (Calman, 1920)(Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) based on fresh material from the Persian Gulf, Iran. Zootaxa 2128:61-68.

Schubart C.D., 2009. Mitochondrial DNA and decapod phylogenies; the importance of pseudogenes and primer optimization. In: Martin, J.W., Crandall, K.A. & Felder, D.L. (eds.), Crustacean Issues 18: Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics, pp. 47-65. Boca Raton, Florida: Taylor & Francis/CRC Press.

Klaus, S., Brandis, D., Ng, P.K.L., Yeo, D.C.J. & Schubart, C.D. 2009. Phylogeny and Biogeography of Asian Freshwater Crabs of the family Gecarcinucidae (Brachyura: Potamoidea). In: Martin, J.W., Crandall, K.A. & Felder, D.L. (eds.), Crustacean Issues18: Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics, pp. 509-531. Boca Raton, Florida: Taylor & Francis/CRC Press.

Schubart C.D. & S. Reuschel, 2009. A proposal for a new classification of Portunoidea and Cancroidea (Brachyura: Heterotremata) based on two independent molecular phylogenies. In: Martin, J.W., Crandall, K.A. & Felder, D.L. (eds.), Crustacean Issues 18: Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics, Pp. 533-549. Boca Raton, Florida: Taylor & Francis/CRC Press.

Thoma, B.P., C.D. Schubart & D.L. Felder, 2009. Molecular phylogeny of western Atlantic representatives of the genus Hexapanopeus (Decapoda: Brachyura: Panopeidae). In: Martin, J.W., Crandall, K.A. & Felder, D.L. (eds.), Crustacean Issues 18: Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics, pp. 551-565. Boca Raton, Florida: Taylor & Francis/CRC Press.

Mantelatto, F.L., R. Robles, C.D. Schubart & D.L. Felder, 2009. Geographic differentiation and molecular phylogeny of the genus Cronius Stimpson, 1860, with reclassification of C. tumidulus and several American species of Portunus within the genus Achelous De Haan, 1833 (Brachyura: Portunidae). In: Martin, J.W., Crandall, K.A. & Felder, D.L. (eds.), Crustacean Issues 18: Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics, pp. 567-579. Boca Raton, Florida: Taylor & Francis/CRC Press.

Naderloo, R. & C.D. Schubart, 2009. Redescription and mitochondrial identification of Chiromantes boulengeri (Calman, 1920)(Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) based on fresh material from the Persian Gulf, Iran. Zootaxa 2128:61-68.

Klaus, S., C.D. Schubart & D. Brandis, 2009. Ultrastructure of spermatozoa and spermatophores of Old World freshwater crabs (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Gecarcinucidae, Potamidae, and Potamonautidae). Journal of Morphology, 270(2): 175-193.

Baeza, J.A., C.D. Schubart, P. Zillner, S. Fuentes & R.T. Bauer (2009) Molecular phylogeny of shrimps from the genus Lysmata (Caridea: Lysmatidae): the evolutionary origins of pair-living, protandric simultaneous hermaphroditism and species status. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 96: 415-424.

Schmid V, Kautz S, Trindl A, Heinze J (2009) PCR primers for polymorphicicrosatellite loci in the ant species Pseudomyrmex gracilis (Formicidae: Pseudomyrmecinae). Mol Ecol Res 9: 1150-1152

Oppelt A, Heinze J (2009) Mating is associated with immediate changes of the hydrocarbon profile of Leptothorax gredleri ant queens. J Insect Physiol 55: 624-628

Heinze J, d’Ettorre P (2009) Honest and dishonest communication in social Hymenoptera. J exp Biol 212: 1775-1779

Kautz S, Schmid VS, Trindl A, Heinze J, Ballhorn DJ, Heil M (2009) Isolation and characterization of 22 microsatellite loci in the plant-ant Pseudomyrmex ferrugineus (Formicidae: Pseudomyrmecinae) and cross-testing for two congeneric species. Mol Ecol Res 9: 1016-1019

Oettler J, Heinze J (2009) Polymorphism of female reproductives in the tramp ant Technomyrmex vitiensis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae). Myrmecol News 12: 133-137

Van Zweden JS, Heinze J, Boomsma JJ, d’Ettorre P (2009) Ant queen egg-marking signals: matching deceptive laboratory simplicity with natural complexity. PLoS One 4:e4718

Heinze J, Foitzik S (2009) The evolution of queen numbers in ants: from one to many and back In: Gadau J, Fewell J (eds) Organization of insect societies: from genome to socio­complexity. Harvard Univ Press, Cambridge, MA, 26-50

Brunner E, Kroiss J, Heinze J (2009) Chemical correlates of reproduction and worker policing in a myrmicine ant. J Insect Physiol 55: 19-26

Frohschammer S, Heinze J (2009) Male fighting and “territoriality” within colonies of the ant Cardiocondyla venustula. Naturwissenschaften 96: 159-163

Cremer S, Sixt M (2009) Analogies in the evolution of individual and social immunity. Phil Trans Roy Soc B 364: 129-142, doi: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0166 (online early, to appear 12. January 2009)

Cremer S, Ugelvig LV, Drijfhout FP, Schlick-Steiner BC, Steiner FM, Seifert B, Hughes DP, Schulz A, Petersen KS, Konrad H, Stauffer C, Kiran K, Espadaler X, D’Ettorre P, Aktaç N, Eilenberg J, Jones GR, Nash DR, Pedersen JS, Boomsma JJ (2008) The evolution of invasiveness in garden ants. PLoS Onehttp://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003838(3. December 2008)

Suefuji M, Cremer S, Oettler J, Heinze J (2008) Queen number influences the timing of the sexual production in colonies of Cardiocondyla ants. Biol Lett 4: 670-673

Cremer S, d’Ettorre P, Drijfhout FP, Sledge MF, Turillazzi S, Heinze J (2008) Imperfect chemical female mimicry in males of the ant Cardiocondyla obscurior. Naturwissenschaften 95: 1101-1105

Oppelt A, Spitzenpfeil N, Heinze J (2008) The significance of intercolonial variation of cuticular hydrocarbons for inbreeding avoidance in ant sexuals. Anim Behav 76: 1029-1034

Krueger, K., & Flauger, B. (2008). Social feeding decisions in horses (Equus caballus). Behav Process 78: 76–83

Feldhaar H, Foitzik S, Heinze J (2008) Life-long commitment to the wrong partner: hybridization in ants. Phil Trans R Soc Lond B 363: 2891-2899

Heinze J (2008) The demise of the standard ant. Myrmecol News 11: 9-20

Heinze J (2008) Hierarchy length in orphaned colonies of the ant Temnothorax nylanderi. Naturwissenschaften 95: 757-760

Schrempf A, Heinze J (2008) Mating with stressed males increases the fitness of ant queens. PLoS One 3: 2592

Krueger K, Heinze J (2008) Horse sense: social status of horses (Equus caballus) affects their likelihood of copying other horses’ behavior. Anim Cogn 11: 431-439Heinze J, Schrempf A (2008) Aging and reproduction in social insects. Gerontology 54: 160-167

Oettler J, Schmitt T, Herzner G, Heinze J (2008) Chemical profiles of mated and virgin queens, egg-laying intermorphs and workers of the ant Crematogaster smithi. J Insect Physiol 54: 672-679

Korb J, Heinze J (2008) The ecology of social life: a synthesis. In: Korb J, Heinze J (eds) Ecology of social evolution Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp 245-259

Heinze J (2008) Social plasticity: ecology, genetics, and the structure of ant societies. In: Korb J, Heinze J (eds) Ecology of social evolution Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp 129-150

Ugelvig LV, Drijfhout FP, Kronauer DJC, Boomsma JJ, Pedersen JS, Cremer S (2008) The introduction history of invasive garden ants in Europe: integrating genetic, chemical and behavioural approaches. BMC Biol, 6 (11), doi:10.1186/1741-7007-6-11

Vogt, G., M. Huber, M. Thiemann, G. van den Boogaart, O.J. Schmitz & C.D. Schubart, 2008. Production of different phenotypes from the same genotype in the same environment by developmental variation, Journal of Experimental Biology 211: 510-523

Schubart, C.D. & P.K.L. Ng, 2008. A new molluscivore crab from Lake Poso confirms multiple colonisation of ancient lakes in Sulawesi by freshwater crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 154: 211-221

Schubart, C.D., T. Santl & P. Koller, P., 2008. Mitochondrial patterns of intra- and interspecific differentiation among endemic freshwater crabs of ancient lakes in Sulawesi. Contributions to Zoology 77: 83-90