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Smoking is associated with increased eryptosis, suicidal erythrocyte death, in a large population-based cohort by Schmitt, Marvin, Ewendt, Franz, Kluttig, Alexander, Mikolajczyk, Rafael, Kraus, F. Bernhard, Wätjen, Wim, Bürkner, Paul-Christian, Stangl, Gabriele I., Föller, Michael

“…Smoking has multiple detrimental effects on health, and is a major preventable cause of premature death and chronic disease. Despite the well-described effect…”
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size of wild honeybee populations (Apis mellifera) and its implications for the conservation of honeybees by Moritz, Robin F. A, Kraus, F. Bernhard, Kryger, Per, Crewe, Robin M

“…The density of wild honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera) in the African dry highland savannahs was estimated in three Nature Reserves in Gauteng, South Africa…”
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Shift Work has a Genetic Basis in Honeybee Pollen Foragers (Apis melliferaL.) by Bernhard Kraus, F., Gerecke, Eve, Moritz, Robin F. A.

“…Division of labour is a fundamental property of any social system. The specialization of different individuals in different tasks increases the overall work…”
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Worker caste determination in the army ant Eciton burchellii by Jaffé, Rodolfo, Kronauer, Daniel J.C, Bernhard Kraus, F, Boomsma, Jacobus J, Moritz, Robin F.A

“… We conclude that the combination of polyandry and genetic variation for caste determination may have facilitated the evolution of worker caste diversity in…”
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Outbreeding and lack of temporal genetic structure in a drone congregation of the neotropical stingless bee Scaptotrigona mexicana by Mueller, Matthias Y., Moritz, Robin F.A., Kraus, F. Bernhard

“…Drone aggregations are a widespread phenomenon in many stingless bee species (Meliponini), but the ultimate and proximate causes for their formation are still…”
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Workers dominate male production in the neotropical bumblebee Bombus wilmattae (Hymenoptera: Apidae) by Huth-Schwarz, Anett, León, Adolfo, Vandame, Rémy, Moritz, Robin Fa, Kraus, F Bernhard

“…Cooperation and conflict in social insects are closely linked to the genetic structure of the colony. Kin selection theory predicts conflict over the…”
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Cherchez la femme? Site choice of drone congregations in the stingless bee Scaptotrigona mexicana by Galindo López, Joany C., Kraus, F. Bernhard

“…Drone congregations are a widespread phenomenon among stingless bee species. Such congregations can consist of more than 1000 individuals and persist for…”
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Gene flow is maintained by polyandry and male dispersal in the army ant Eciton burchellii by Jaffé, Rodolfo, Moritz, Robin F. A., Kraus, F. Bernhard

“…The combination of haplodiploidy, complementary sex determination and eusociality constrains the effective population size ( N e ) of social Hymenoptera far…”
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Conserving genetic diversity in the honeybee: Comments on Harpur et al. (2012) by De la Rúa, Pilar, Jaffé, Rodolfo, Muñoz, Irene, Serrano, José, Moritz, Robin F. A., Kraus, F. Bernhard

“…The article by Harpur et al. (2012) ‘Management increases genetic diversity of honey bees via admixture’ concludes that ‘…honey bees do not suffer from reduced…”
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Characterization and Validation of the LT-SYS Copper Assay on a Roche Cobas 8000 c502 Analyzer by Kraus, F Bernhard, Mischereit, Marlies, Eller, Christoph, Ludwig-Kraus, Beatrice

“…Validation of the LT-SYS quantitative in vitro copper assay on a Roche Cobas 8000 c502 analyzer and comparison with a BIOMED assay on a Roche Cobas Mira…”
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Greenhouse bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) spread their genes into the wild by Kraus, F. Bernhard, Szentgyörgyi, H, Rożej, E, Rhode, M, Moroń, D, Woyciechowski, M, Moritz, R. F. A

“…Bumblebees (Bombus spp.) are commonly used for greenhouse pollination of tomatoes and other crop plants. The colonies used for this purpose are provided by…”
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Factors influencing Nosema bombi infections in natural populations of Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera: Apidae) by Huth-Schwarz, Anett, Settele, Josef, Moritz, Robin F.A., Kraus, F. Bernhard

“…[Display omitted] ► In this study we examined factors influencing N. bombi parasitism in B. terrestris. ► We determined host genetic variability and colony…”
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Number of honeybee colonies in areas with high and low beekeeping activity in Southern Mexico by Moritz, Robin F. A, Kraus, F. Bernhard, Huth-Schwarz, Anett, Wolf, Stephan, Carrillo, Claudia A. Castillo, Paxton, Robert J, Vandame, Rémy

“…The number of colonies in feral and managed honeybee populations (Apis mellifera) was determined for various sampling locations in Chiapas and Yucatan (Mexico)…”
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Mating frequency and genetic colony structure of the neotropical bumblebee Bombus wilmattae (Hymenoptera: Apidae) by Huth-Schwarz, Anett, León, Adolfo, Vandame, Rémy, Moritz, Robin F. A., Kraus, F. Bernhard

“…So far, nearly all studies concerning the mating frequency of bumblebees have been conducted with temperate species, showing that single mating seems to be the…”
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Experience, but not distance, influences the recruitment precision in the stingless bee Scaptotrigona mexicana by Sánchez, Daniel, Kraus, F. Bernhard, Hernández, Manuel de Jesús, Vandame, Rémy

“…Recruitment precision, i.e. the proportion of recruits that reach an advertised food source, is a crucial adaptation of social bees to their environment…”
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Rare royal families in honeybees, Apis mellifera by Moritz, Robin F. A, Lattorff, H. Michael G, Neumann, Peter, Kraus, F. Bernhard, Radloff, Sarah E, Hepburn, H. Randall

“…The queen is the dominant female in the honeybee colony, Apis mellifera, and controls reproduction. Queen larvae are selected by the workers and are fed a…”
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Four quantitative trait loci associated with low Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia) spore load in the honeybee Apis mellifera by Huang, Qiang, Kryger, Per, Le Conte, Yves, Lattorff, H. Michael G., Kraus, F. Bernhard, Moritz, Robin F. A.

“…Nosema ceranae has been recently introduced into the honeybee Apis mellifera as a novel microsporidian gut parasite. To locate the genetic region involved in…”
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Male fitness of honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera L.) by Kraus, F. B., Neumann, P., Scharpenberg, H., Van Praagh, J., Moritz, R. F. A.

“…Honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) have an extreme polyandrous mating system. Worker offspring of 19 naturally mated queens was genotyped with DNA microsatellites,…”
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Social evolution. Genomic signatures of evolutionary transitions from solitary to group living by Kapheim, Karen M, Pan, Hailin, Li, Cai, Salzberg, Steven L, Puiu, Daniela, Magoc, Tanja, Robertson, Hugh M, Hudson, Matthew E, Venkat, Aarti, Fischman, Brielle J, Hernandez, Alvaro, Yandell, Mark, Ence, Daniel, Holt, Carson, Yocum, George D, Kemp, William P, Bosch, Jordi, Waterhouse, Robert M, Zdobnov, Evgeny M, Stolle, Eckart, Kraus, F Bernhard, Helbing, Sophie, Moritz, Robin F A, Glastad, Karl M, Hunt, Brendan G, Goodisman, Michael A D, Hauser, Frank, Grimmelikhuijzen, Cornelis J P, Pinheiro, Daniel Guariz, Nunes, Francis Morais Franco, Soares, Michelle Prioli Miranda, Tanaka, Érica Donato, Simões, Zilá Luz Paulino, Hartfelder, Klaus, Evans, Jay D, Barribeau, Seth M, Johnson, Reed M, Massey, Jonathan H, Southey, Bruce R, Hasselmann, Martin, Hamacher, Daniel, Biewer, Matthias, Kent, Clement F, Zayed, Amro, Blatti, 3rd, Charles, Sinha, Saurabh, Johnston, J Spencer, Hanrahan, Shawn J, Kocher, Sarah D, Wang, Jun, Robinson, Gene E, Zhang, Guojie

“…The evolution of eusociality is one of the major transitions in evolution, but the underlying genomic changes are unknown. We compared the genomes of 10 bee…”
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Rare royal families in honeybees, Apis melliferas by Moritz, Robin F. A., Michael, H., Lattorff, G., Neumann, Peter, Kraus, F. Bernhard, Radloff, Sarah E., Hepburn, H. Randall

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