Madeleine Beekman

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Chapman NC, Makinson J, Beekman M & Oldroyd BP 2009. Honeybee (Apis mellifera) guards use adaptive acceptance thresholds to limit worker reproductive parasitism. Animal Behaviour 78: 1205-1211.

Oldroyd BP & Beekman M. 2009. Intergenerational reproductive parasitism in a stingless bee. Molecular Ecology 18: 3958-3960.

Dussutour A, Nicolis SC, Shephard G, Beekman M & Sumpter DJT. 2009. The role of multiple pheromones in food recruitment by ants. Journal of Experimental Biology 212: 2337-2348

Chapman NC, Nanork P, Gloag RS, Wattanachaiyingcharoen W, Beekman M & Oldroyd BP. 2009. Queenless honey bee (Apis florea) colonies are infiltrated by workers from other queenless nests. Behavioral Ecology: 20: 817-820.

Latty T, Duncan M & Beekman M. 2009. High bee traffic disrupts transfer of directional information in flying honey bee swarms. Animal Behaviour: 78: 117-121.

Beekman, M., M. H. Allsopp, L. A. Jordan, J. Lim, and B. P. Oldroyd. 2009. A quantitative study of worker reproduction in queenright colonies of the Cape honey bee Apis mellifera capensis. Molecular Ecology 18:2722-2727.

Chapman NC, Beekman M, Oldroyd BP 2009. Several workers lay eggs in the same brood cell in queenless honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies, Insectes Sociaux 56: 103-105.

Oldroyd BP, Allsopp MH, Gloag RS, Lim J, Jordan LA and Beekman M. 2008. Thelytokous Parthenogenesis in Unmated Queen Honeybees (Apis mellifera capensis): Central Fusion and High Recombination Rates. Genetics 180: 359-366 .

Gloag, RS, Beekman M, Heard TA & Oldroyd BP. 2008. Nest defence in a stingless bee: What causes fighting swarms in Trigona carbonaria (Hymenoptera: Meliponini)? Insectes Sociaux: 55: 387-391.

Chapman NC, Nanork P, Reddy MS, Baht NS, Beekman M & Oldroyd BP 2008. Nestmate recognition by guards of the Asian hive bee (Apis cerana). Insectes Sociaux: 55: 382-386.

Oldroyd BP, Gloag RS, Even N & Wattanachaiyingcharoen W & Beekman M 2008. Nest-site selection in the open-nesting honey bee Apis florea. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 62 (10): 1643-1653.

Beekman M & Oldroyd BP 2008. Who is the Queen's mother? Royal cheats in social insects. Journal of Biosciences 32(2): 159-161.

Jordan LA, Allsopp MH, Beekman M, Wossler, TC & Oldroyd BP 2008. Inheritance of traits associated with reproductive potential in Apis mellifera capensis and A. m. scutellata workers. Journal of Heredity 99 (4): 376-381.

Hughes WOH, Oldroyd BP, Beekman M & Ratnieks FLW 2008. Ancestral monogamy shows kin selection is key to the evolution of eusociality. Science 320: 1213-1216.

Beekman M , Gloag RS, Even N, Wattanachaiyingcharoen W & Oldroyd BP 2008. Dance precision of Apis florea - clues to the evolution of the honey bee dance language? Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 62: 1259-1265.

Oldroyd BP & Beekman M 2008. Effects of selection for honey bee worker reproduction on foraging traits. PLoS Biology 6 (3): e56. Doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060056.

Beekman M, Gloag RS, Even N, Wattanachaiyingchareon W & Oldroyd BP. 2008. Dance precision of Apis florea – clues to the evolution of the honey bee dance language? Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology: doi: 10.1007/s00265-008-0554-z.

Jordan LA, Allsopp MH, Oldroyd BP, Wossler TC & Beekman M. 2008. Cheating workers produce royal offspring. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 275: 345-351. and supplementary material

Beekman M & Lew JB. 2008. Foraging honeybees – when does it pay to dance? Behavioral Ecology: 19 (2): 255-261.

Beekman M & Oldroyd BP 2008. When workers disunite: Intra-specific parasitism in eusocial bees. Annual Review of Entomology 53:19-37.

Beekman M, Allsopp MH, Wossler TC & Oldroyd BP. 2008. Factors affecting the dynamics of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) hybrid zone in South Africa. Heredity: 100: 13-18

Gloag, R.S., Beekman M., Heard T.A. & B.P. Oldroyd. 2008. No worker reproduction in the Australian stingless bee, Trigona carbonaria Smith (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Insectes Sociaux 54: 412-417.

Janson S & Beekman M. 2007. Honeybees moving home - the effect of swarm size on decision-making. European Conference on Complex System, October, Dresden, Germany (refereed conference proceedings).

Jordan LA, Allsopp MH, Oldroyd BP, Wossler TC & Beekman M. 2007. A scientific note on the drone flight time of Apis mellifera capensis and A. m. scutellata. Apidologie 38: 436-437

Beekman, M., Martin, S.J., Drijfhout, F. & B.P. Oldroyd. (2007). Higher removal rate of eggs laid by anarchistic queens - a cost of anarchy? Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 61: 1847 - 1853

Beekman M, Gilchrist AL, Duncan, M & Sumpter DJT. 2007. What makes a honeybee scout? Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology: 61:985-995.

Janson S, Middendorf M & Beekman M. 2007 Searching for a new home - scouting behavior of honeybee swarms. Behavioral Ecology: 18: 384-392.

Oldroyd BP, Reddy MS, Chapman NC, Thompson GJ & Beekman M. 2006 Evidence for reproductive isolation between two colour morphs of cavity nesting honey bees (Apis) in south India. Insectes Sociaux: 53: 429-434.

Beekman M, Peeters C & O'Riain MJ. 2006 Developmental divergence: neglected variable in understanding the evolution of reproductive skew in social animals. Behavioral Ecology:17(4): 622-627. online access

Baalen van M & Beekman M. 2006 The costs and benefits of genetic heterogeneity in resistance against parasites in social insects. The American Naturalist 167: 568 - 577

Beekman M, Fathke RL & Seeley TD. 2006. How does an informed minority of scouts guide a honey bee swarm as it flies to its new home? Animal Behaviour. 71: 161-171

Jones J, Helliwell,P, Beekman M, Maleska R & Oldroyd BP. 2005 The effects of rearing temperature on developmental stability and learning and memory in the honey bee, Apis mellifera. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 191: 1121-1129

Beekman M, Doyen, L. & Oldroyd BP. 2005 Increase in dance imprecision with decreasing foraging distance in the honey bee Apis mellifera L. is partly explained by physical constraints. Journal of Comparative Physiology A191: 1107-1113

Beekman M. 2005. How long will honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) be stimulated to revisit past-profitable forage sites? Journal of Comparative Physiology A 191: 1115-1120

Beekman M & Oldroyd BP. 2005 Honey bee workers use cues other than egg viability for policing. Biology Letters 1(2): 129-132

Janson S, Middendorf M & Beekman M 2005. Honey bee swarms: How do scouts guide a swarm of uninformed bees? Animal Behaviour 70 (2): 349-358

Beekman M, Martin CG & Oldroyd BP 2004. Similar policing rates of eggs laid by virgin and mated honey-bee queens. Naturwissenschaften.91: 598-601 .

Beekman M, Sumpter DJT, Seraphides N & Ratnieks FLW 2004. Comparing foraging behaviour of small and large honey bee colonies by decoding waggle dances made by foragers. Functional Ecology 18: 829-835.

Beekman, M. 2004. Is Her Majesty at home? Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 19: 505-506

Martin CG, Oldroyd BP & Beekman M. 2004. Differential reproductive success among subfamilies in queenless honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 56: 42-49

Beekman, M. 2004 Buzy buzzers. Trends in Ecology and Evolution.19: 65-66

Beekman M & Ratnieks FLW. 2003 Power over reproduction in social Hymenoptera. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London series B. 358: 1741-1755.

Beekman, M. & B.P. Oldroyd. 2003 Different policing rates of eggs laid by queenright and queenless anarchistic honey-bee workers (Apis mellifera L.) Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 54: 480-484

Sumpter DJT & Beekman M. 2003 From non-linearity to optimality: pheromone trail foraging by ants. Animal Behaviour 66: 273-280

Beekman, M., Komdeur, J. & FLW. Ratnieks. 2003 Reproductive conflicts in social animals: who has power? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18: 277-282

Beekman M & Oldroyd BP. 2003 Effects of cross-feeding anarchistic and wild type honey bees: Anarchistic workers are not queen-like. Naturwissenschaften. 90: 189-192

Beekman M, Oldroyd BP & Myerscough MR. 2003 Sticking to their choice - honey bee subfamilies abandon declining food sources at a slow but uniform rate. Ecological Entomology 28(2): 233-236

Beekman M, Good G, Allsopp MH, Radloff SE, Pirk CWW & Ratnieks FLW. 2002 A non-policing honey bee colony (Apis mellifera capensis). Naturwissenschaften 89: 479-482

Beekman M, Wossler TC, Martin SJ & Ratnieks FLW. 2002 Parasitic Cape honey bee workers (Apis mellifera capensis) are not given differential treatment by African guards (Apis mellifera scutellata). Insectes Sociaux 49: 216-220

Beekman M, Calis JNM, Oldroyd BP & Ratnieks FLW 2002. When do honey bee guards reject their former nestmates after swarming? Insectes Sociaux 49: 56-61.
Calis JNM, Boot WJ, Allsopp MH & Beekman M 2002. Taking more than a fair share: Nutrition of worker larvae related to social parasitism in the Cape honey bee Apis mellifera capensis. Apidologie 33:193-202 .

Martin SJ, Beekman M, Wossler TC & Ratnieks FLW 2002. Parasitic Cape honeybee workers, Apis mellifera capensis, evade policing. Nature 415: 163-165.

Beekman M, Sumpter DJ & Ratnieks FLW 2001. Phase transition between disordered and ordered foraging in Pharaohs’ ants. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 98 (17): 9703-9706.

Beekman M. 2001. The evolution of social behaviour in microorganisms. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 16 (11): 606-607.

Beekman M & Ratnieks FLW 2000. Long range foraging in the honeybee Apis mellifera. Funct. Ecol. 14:4: 490-496.

Beekman M & van Stratum P 2000. Does the diapause experience of bumblebee queens Bombus terrestris affect colony characteristics? Ecol. Entomol. 25:1-6.

Beekman M, Calis J N M & Boot W J 2000. Parasitic honeybees get royal treatment. Nature 404: 723.

Beekman M, van Stratum P & Lingeman R 2000. Artificial rearing of bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) selects against heavy queens. J. Apic. Res. 39(1-2): 61-65.

Beekman M & van Stratum P 1999. Respiration in bumblebee queens: effect of life phase on the discontinuous ventilation cycle. Entom. Exp. et Appl. 92: 295-298

Beekman M, van Stratum P & Veerman A 1999. Selection for non-diapause in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris, with notes on the effect of inbreeding. Entom. Exp. et Appl. 93 (1): 69-75.

Beekman M & van Stratum P 1998. Bumblebee sex ratios: Why do bumblebees produce so many males? Proc. R. Soc. London B. 265: 1535-1543.

Beekman M, van Stratum P & Lingeman R 1998. Diapause survival and post-diapause performance of bumblebee queens (Bombus terrestris). Entom. Exp. et Appl. 89: 207-214.

Beekman M, Lingeman R, Kleijne FM & Sabelis MW 1998. Optimal timing of the production of sexuals in bumblebee colonies. Entom. Exp. et Appl. 88: 147-154.

Veerman A, Beekman M & Veenendaal RL 1988. Photoperiodic induction of diapause in the large white butterfly, Pieris brassicae: evidence for hourglass time measurement. J Insect Physiol 34: 1063-1069.