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Correction to: The introduction history of invasive garden ants in Europe: integrating genetic, chemical and behavioural approaches (2018)
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Ugelvig, L. V., Drijfhout, F. P., Kronauer, D. J. C., Boomsma, J. J., Pedersen, J. S., & Cremer, S. (2018). Correction to: The introduction history of invasive garden ants in Europe: integrating genetic, chemical and behavioural approaches. BMC Biology, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-018-0604-6

Reinvestigation of the raw data revealed an unfortunate error in Ugelvig et al. 2008 [1]. Our estimates of the area over which ant populations occurred erroneously entered diameters rather than radii in the ellipse area equation, which implied that p... Read More about Correction to: The introduction history of invasive garden ants in Europe: integrating genetic, chemical and behavioural approaches.

Relationship Between Hydrocarbon Composition on the Cuticle of Melipona quadrifasciata (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Workers and the Secretion of the Cephalic Salivary Glands (2018)
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Poiani, S. B., Morgan, E., Drijfhout, F. P., & Cruz-Landim, C. (2018). Relationship Between Hydrocarbon Composition on the Cuticle of Melipona quadrifasciata (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Workers and the Secretion of the Cephalic Salivary Glands. Sociobiology, 671 - 678. https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v65i4.3384

Since chemical communication is pivotal for social insect success, the present paper aimed to quantify and qualify the chemical compounds that might have pheromonal role in both cephalic salivary gland and epicuticle of workers of Melipona quadrifasc... Read More about Relationship Between Hydrocarbon Composition on the Cuticle of Melipona quadrifasciata (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Workers and the Secretion of the Cephalic Salivary Glands.

Is the Salivary Gland Associated with Honey Bee Recognition Compounds in Worker Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)? (2018)
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Martin, S. J., Correia-Oliveira, M. E., Shemilt, S., & Drijfhout, F. (2018). Is the Salivary Gland Associated with Honey Bee Recognition Compounds in Worker Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)?. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 44, 650-657. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-018-0975-8

Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) function as recognition compounds with the best evidence coming from social insects such as ants and honey bees. The major exocrine gland involved in hydrocarbon storage in ants is the post-pharyngeal gland (PPG) in the... Read More about Is the Salivary Gland Associated with Honey Bee Recognition Compounds in Worker Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)?.

Host colony integration: Megalomyrmex guest ant parasites maintain peace with their host using weaponry (2018)
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Drijfhout. (2018). Host colony integration: Megalomyrmex guest ant parasites maintain peace with their host using weaponry. Animal Behaviour, 71 -79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.02.021

Social parasites exploit resources of other social species, to the detriment of their host. In order to enter and integrate in a host colony, social parasites must avoid being detected as a non-nestmate. The parasites, therefore, use one or a combina... Read More about Host colony integration: Megalomyrmex guest ant parasites maintain peace with their host using weaponry.

Adult fly age estimations using cuticular hydrocarbons and Artificial Neural Networks in forensically important Calliphoridae species (2017)
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Moore, H. E., Butcher, J. B., Day, C. R., & Drijfhout, F. P. (2017). Adult fly age estimations using cuticular hydrocarbons and Artificial Neural Networks in forensically important Calliphoridae species. Forensic Science International, 280, Article 233-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2017.10.001

Blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) are forensically important as they are known to be one of the first to colonise human remains. The larval stage is typically used to assist a forensic entomologists with adult flies rarely used as they are difficult... Read More about Adult fly age estimations using cuticular hydrocarbons and Artificial Neural Networks in forensically important Calliphoridae species.

Isochondodendrine and 2-norcocsuline: additional alkaloids from Triclisia subcordata induce cytotoxicity and apoptosis in ovarian cancer cell lines (2017)
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Ijeoma Uche, F., Abed, M. N., Abdullah, M. I., Drijfhout, F. P., McCullagh, J., Claridge, T. W., …Li, W. (2017). Isochondodendrine and 2-norcocsuline: additional alkaloids from Triclisia subcordata induce cytotoxicity and apoptosis in ovarian cancer cell lines. RSC advances, 44154 -44161. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7RA08032H

Triclisia subcordata Oliv (Menispermeaceae) is used in herbal medicine for the treatment of cancer and other diseases in Africa. This study aims to isolate minor alkaloids present in this plant and assay their cytotoxic activities. Isochondodendrine... Read More about Isochondodendrine and 2-norcocsuline: additional alkaloids from Triclisia subcordata induce cytotoxicity and apoptosis in ovarian cancer cell lines.

Dietary geranylgeraniol can limit the activity of pitavastatin as a potential treatment for drug-resistant ovarian cancer (2017)
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de Wolf, E., Abdullah, M. I., Jones, S. M., Menezes, K., Moss, D. M., Drijfhout, F., …Richardson, A. (2017). Dietary geranylgeraniol can limit the activity of pitavastatin as a potential treatment for drug-resistant ovarian cancer. Scientific reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05595-4

Pre-clinical and retrospective studies of patients using statins to reduce plasma cholesterol have suggested that statins may be useful to treat cancer. However, prospective clinical trials have yet to demonstrate significant efficacy. We have previo... Read More about Dietary geranylgeraniol can limit the activity of pitavastatin as a potential treatment for drug-resistant ovarian cancer.

The potential use of cuticular hydrocarbons and multivariate analysis to age empty puparial cases of Calliphora vicina and Lucilia sericata (2017)
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Drijfhout. (2017). The potential use of cuticular hydrocarbons and multivariate analysis to age empty puparial cases of Calliphora vicina and Lucilia sericata. Scientific reports, 1933 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01667-7

Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHC) have been successfully used in the field of forensic entomology for identifying and ageing forensically important blowfly species, primarily in the larval stages. However in older scenes where all other entomological evid... Read More about The potential use of cuticular hydrocarbons and multivariate analysis to age empty puparial cases of Calliphora vicina and Lucilia sericata.

Alarm Pheromone Composition and Behavioral Activity in Fungus-Growing Ants. (2017)
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Drijfhout. (2017). Alarm Pheromone Composition and Behavioral Activity in Fungus-Growing Ants. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 225 - 235. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-017-0821-4

Chemical communication is a dominant method of communication throughout the animal kingdom and can be especially important in group-living animals in which communicating threats, either from predation or other dangers, can have large impacts on group... Read More about Alarm Pheromone Composition and Behavioral Activity in Fungus-Growing Ants..

A characterization of the antimalarial activity of the bark of Cylicodiscus gabunensis Harms (2017)
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Aldulaimi, O., Uche a, F. I., Hameed, H., Mbye, H., Ullah, I., Drijfhout, F., …Li, W. (2017). A characterization of the antimalarial activity of the bark of Cylicodiscus gabunensis Harms. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 198, 221-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2017.01.014

Ethnopharmacological relevance and aim
A decoction of the bark of Cylicodiscus gabunensis Harms is used as a traditional medicine in the treatment of malaria in Nigeria. This study aims to validate the antimalarial potency of this decoction in vitro... Read More about A characterization of the antimalarial activity of the bark of Cylicodiscus gabunensis Harms.

Cytotoxicity effects and apoptosis induction by cycleanine and tetrandrine (2016)
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Uche, F. I., Drijfhout, F., McCullagh, J., Richardson, A., & Li, W. W. (2016). Cytotoxicity effects and apoptosis induction by cycleanine and tetrandrine. Planta Medica, 82(S01), https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1596584

Ovarian cancer remains one of the main causes of death in all gynecologic malignancies [1]. Natural products continue to be important sources of clinically approved anti-cancer drugs [2, 3]. Triclisia subcordata Oliv (Menispermeaceae) is a medicinal... Read More about Cytotoxicity effects and apoptosis induction by cycleanine and tetrandrine.

Species-Specific Cuticular Hydrocarbon Stability within European Myrmica Ants. (2016)
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Drijfhout. (2016). Species-Specific Cuticular Hydrocarbon Stability within European Myrmica Ants. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 1052 - 1062. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-016-0784-x

Recognition is a fundamental process on which all subsequent behaviors are based at every organizational level, from the gene up to the super-organism. At the whole organism level, visual recognition is the best understood. However, chemical communic... Read More about Species-Specific Cuticular Hydrocarbon Stability within European Myrmica Ants..

Age estimation of Calliphora (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larvae using cuticular hydrocarbon analysis and Artificial Neural Networks. (2016)
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Moore, H. E., Butcher, J. B., Adam, C. D., Day, C. R., & Drijfhout, F. P. (2016). Age estimation of Calliphora (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larvae using cuticular hydrocarbon analysis and Artificial Neural Networks. Forensic Science International, 81 - 91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2016.09.012

Cuticular hydrocarbons were extracted daily from the larvae of two closely related blowflies Calliphora vicina and Calliphora vomitoria (Diptera: Calliphoridae). The hydrocarbons were then analysed using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS),... Read More about Age estimation of Calliphora (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larvae using cuticular hydrocarbon analysis and Artificial Neural Networks..

Cuticular hydrocarbons in queens, workers and drones of the Indian honeybee Apis cerana indica (Fab.) (2016)
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Rahman, S., Hajong, S. R., Shemilt, S., & Drijfhout, F. (2016). Cuticular hydrocarbons in queens, workers and drones of the Indian honeybee Apis cerana indica (Fab.). Entomologia Generalis, 36(2), 117 - 126. https://doi.org/10.1127/entomologia/2016/0320

Abstract Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) have evolved as a communication cues and they play a significant role in the life of social insect. Although the primary function is to prevent desiccation, CHCs are also used in recognition of individuals and i... Read More about Cuticular hydrocarbons in queens, workers and drones of the Indian honeybee Apis cerana indica (Fab.).

Cytotoxicity Effects and Apoptosis Induction by Bisbenzylisoquinoline Alkaloids from Triclisia subcordata (2016)
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Uche, F., Drijfhout, F., McCullagh, J., Richardson, A., & Li, W. (2016). Cytotoxicity Effects and Apoptosis Induction by Bisbenzylisoquinoline Alkaloids from Triclisia subcordata. Phytotherapy Research, 1533-1539. https://doi.org/10.1002/ptr.5660

Triclisia subcordata Oliv (Menispermeaceae) is a medicinal plant traditionally used for the treatment of various diseases in West Africa. The ethanol extract of T.?subcordata and its fractions were screened for in vitro anti-ovarian cancer activities... Read More about Cytotoxicity Effects and Apoptosis Induction by Bisbenzylisoquinoline Alkaloids from Triclisia subcordata.

The Long and the Short of Mate Attraction in a Psylloid: do Semiochemicals Mediate Mating in Aacanthocnema dobsoni Froggatt? (2016)
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Drijfhout. (2016). The Long and the Short of Mate Attraction in a Psylloid: do Semiochemicals Mediate Mating in Aacanthocnema dobsoni Froggatt?. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 163 -172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-016-0674-2

Mating is preceded by a series of interdependent events that can be broadly categorized into searching and courtship. Long-range signals convey species- and sex-specific information during searching, while short-range signals provide information spec... Read More about The Long and the Short of Mate Attraction in a Psylloid: do Semiochemicals Mediate Mating in Aacanthocnema dobsoni Froggatt?.

Chemical Strategies of the Beetle Metoecus Paradoxus, Social Parasite of the Wasp Vespula Vulgaris (2015)
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Van Oystaeyen, A., van Zweden, J. S., Huyghe, H., Drijfhout, F., Bonckaert, W., & Wenseleers, T. (2015). Chemical Strategies of the Beetle Metoecus Paradoxus, Social Parasite of the Wasp Vespula Vulgaris. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 41(12), 1137-1147. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-015-0652-0

The parasitoid beetle Metoecus paradoxus frequently parasitizes colonies of the common wasp, Vespula vulgaris. It penetrates a host colony as a larva that attaches itself onto a foraging wasp’s body and, once inside the nest, it feeds on a wasp larva... Read More about Chemical Strategies of the Beetle Metoecus Paradoxus, Social Parasite of the Wasp Vespula Vulgaris.

Changes in the chemical profile of cephalic salivary glands of Scaptotrigona postica (Hymenoptera, Meliponini) workers are phase related (2015)
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Poiani, S. B., Morgan, E. D., Drijfhout, F. P., & da Cruz-Landim, C. (2015). Changes in the chemical profile of cephalic salivary glands of Scaptotrigona postica (Hymenoptera, Meliponini) workers are phase related. Journal of Experimental Biology, 218(17), 2738-2744. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.124180

Most advanced eusocial bees recruit their nest mates to food resources. Recent studies in Meliponini species have revealed that the cephalic salivary (labial) glands (CSGs) are responsible for the production of scent trail pheromones. Studies on CSGs... Read More about Changes in the chemical profile of cephalic salivary glands of Scaptotrigona postica (Hymenoptera, Meliponini) workers are phase related.

Evidence for colony-specific differences in chemical mimicry in the parasitic mite Varroa destructor (2015)
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Kather, R., Drijfhout, F. P., & Martin, S. J. (2015). Evidence for colony-specific differences in chemical mimicry in the parasitic mite Varroa destructor. Chemoecology, 25(4), 215-222. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00049-015-0191-8

In social insects, the integrity of a colony is maintained by recognising and removing intruders. Nest-mates use chemical cues on the cuticle of the individual they encounter to determine whether or not it is part of the colony. Parasites have evolve... Read More about Evidence for colony-specific differences in chemical mimicry in the parasitic mite Varroa destructor.