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Naug D. Latitudinal differences in body size and metabolic rate in open and cavity nesting honeybee species.
Kord D, Naug D. Elite and non-elite individuals in honeybees differ in how behavioral and life-history traits covary.
Tait C, Chicco A, Naug D. Brain energy metabolism as an underlying basis to slow-fast cognitive phenotypes in honeybees.
Naug D. 2024. Ultimate and proximate analyses of behavioral responses. One Earth 4:48-51.
Naug D. 2024. Metabolic scaling as an emergent outcome of variation in metabolic rate. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 379:20220495
Cassano J, Naug D. 2022. Metabolic rate shapes differences in foraging efficiency among honeybee foragers. Behavioral Ecology 33:1188-1195.
Mugel S, Naug D. 2022. Metabolic rate diversity influences group-level performance in honeybees. American Naturalist 199:E156-E169.
Tait C, Naug D. 2022. Interindividual variation in the use social information during learning in honeybees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289:20212501.
Tait C, Naug D. 2021. Slow-fast cognitive phenotypes and their significance for social evolution: What can we learn from honeybees? Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:766414.
Tait C, Brockmann A, Naug D. 2021. Nesting ecology does not explain slow-fast cognitive differences among honeybee species. Animal Cognition 24:1227-1235
Mugel S, Naug D. 2020. Metabolic rate shapes phenotypic covariance among physiological, behavioral and life history traits in honeybees. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 74:129.
Tait C, Naug D. 2020. Cognitive phenotypes and their functional differences in the honeybee, Apis mellifera. Animal Behaviour 165:117-122.
Katz K, Naug D. 2020. A mechanistic model of how metabolic rate can interact with resource availability to influence foraging success and lifespan. Ecological Modelling 416:108899
Tait C, Mattise-Lorenzen A, Lark A, Naug D. 2019. Interindividual variation in learning ability in honeybees. Behavioural Processes 167:103918.
Reade A, Dillon M, Naug D. 2019. Spare to share? How does interindividual variation in metabolic rate influence food sharing in the honeybee? Journal of Insect Physiology 112:35-38
Katz K, Naug D. 2016. Dancers and Followers in a honeybee colony differently prioritize individual and colony nutritional needs. Animal Behaviour 119:69-74
Naug D. 2016. From division of labor to collective behavior: Behavioral analyses at different levels. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70: 1113-1115
Reade A, Katz K, Naug D. 2016. A Capillary Feeder (CAFE) assay to measure food consumption and food choice of individual honeybees. Journal of Apicultural Research 55: 353-355
Reade A, Naug D. 2016. Inter-individual variation in nutrient balancing strategy in the honeybee (Apis mellifera). Journal of Insect Physiology 95:17-22
Katz K, Naug D. 2015. Energetic state regulates the exploration-exploitation tradeoff in honeybees. Behavioral Ecology 26:1045-1050
Mayack C, Naug D. 2015. Starving honeybees lose self-control. Biology Letters 11:20140820
Naug D. 2014. Social networks in insect colonies. In: Krause J, Croft D, James R (eds.) “Animal Social Networks” Oxford University Press.
Naug D. 2014. Not your father’s team spirit. Evolution 68:1228-1229.
Jaumann S, Scudelari R, Naug D. 2013. Energetic cost of learning can cause cognitive impairment in honeybees. Biology Letters 9:20130149.
Mayack C, Naug D. 2013. Individual energetic state can prevail over social regulation of foraging in honeybees. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 67:929-936.
Scholl J, Naug D. 2011. Olfactory discrimination of age-specific hydrocarbons generates behavioral segregation in a honeybee colony. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65:1967-1973.
Mayack C, Naug D. 2011. A changing but not an absolute energy budget dictates risk-sensitive behavior in the honeybee. Animal Behaviour 82:595-600.
Naug D. 2010. Disease transmission and networks. In: Breed M.D. and Moore J., (eds.) Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, volume 1, pp. 532-536 Oxford: Academic Press.
Mayack C, Naug D. 2010. Parasitic infection leads to decline in hemolymph sugar levels in honeybee foragers. Journal of Insect Physiology 56:1572-1575.
Campbell J, Kessler B, Mayack C, Naug D. 2010. Behavioral fever in infected honeybees: Parasitic manipulation or coincidental benefits? Parasitology 137:1487-1491.
Feigenbaum C, Naug D. 2010 The influence of social hunger on food distribution and its implications for disease transmission in a honeybee colony. Insectes Sociaux. 57:217-222.
Naug D, Gibbs A. 2009. Behavioral changes mediated by hunger in honeybees infected with Nosema ceranae. Apidologie 40:595-599.
Naug D, 2009. Nutritional stress due to habitat loss may explain recent honeybee colony collapses. Biological Conservation 142:2369-2372.
Naug D, 2009. Structure and resilience of the social network as a function of colony size in social insects. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63:1023-1028.
Mayack C, Naug D, 2009. Energetic stress in the honeybee Apis mellifera from Nosema ceranae infection. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 100:185-188.
Naug D, 2008. Structure of the social network and its influence on transmission dynamics in a honeybee colony. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62:1719-1725.
Naug D, Arathi HS, 2007. Receiver bias for exaggerated signals in honeybees and its implications for the evolution of floral displays. Biology Letters 3:635-637.
Naug D, Smith BH, 2007. Experimentally induced change in infectious period affects transmission dynamics in a social group. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274:61-65.
Naug D, Arathi HS, 2007. Sampling and decision rules used by honey bees in a foraging arena. Animal Cognition 10:117-124.
Naug D, Wenzel J, 2006. Constraints on foraging success due to resource ecology limit colony productivity in social insects. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 60:62-68.
Naug D, Camazine S, 2002. The role of colony organization on pathogen transmission in social insects. Journal of Theoretical Biology 215:427-439.
Naug D, 2001. Ergonomic mechanisms for handling variable amounts of work in colonies of the wasp Ropalidia marginata. Ethology 107:1115-1123.
Naug D, Gadagkar R, 1999. Flexible division of labor mediated by social interactions in an insect colony- a simulation model. Journal of Theoretical Biology 197:123-133.
Naug D, Gadagkar R, 1998. Division of labor in colonies of skewed age distributions in a primitively eusocial wasp. Insectes Sociaux 45:247-254.
Naug D, Gadagkar R, 1998. The role of age in temporal polyethism in a primitively eusocial wasp. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 42:37-47.