Publications

• Mallon, E.B. & Franks, N.R. (2000) Ants estimate area using Buffon’s needle. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 267(1445) 765-770.pub med
• Mallon, E.B., Pratt S.C. & Franks N.R. (2001) Individual and collective decision-making during nest site selection by the ant Leptothorax albipennis. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 50 353-359 
• Mugford, S.T., Mallon, E.B. & Franks, N.R. (2001) The accuracy of Buffon's needle: a rule of thumb used by ants to estimate area. Behavioral ecology. 12(6): 655-658
• Pratt, S.C., Mallon, E.B., Sumpter, D.B. & Franks, N.R. (2002) Quorum-dependent recruitment and collective decision-making during colony emigration by the ant Leptothorax albipennis Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology. 52(2): 117-127 pub med
• Franks, N.R., Britton, N.F, Mallon, E.B., Pratt, S.C. & Sumpter D.B. (2002) Information Flow and Collective Intelligence in House hunting Social Insects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (London) B. 357 (1427): 1567-1583
• Franks, N.R., Mallon, E.B., Bray, H.E.,Hamilton, M.J., & Mischler T.C. (2003) Strategies for choosing between alternatives with different attributes: exemplified by house-hunting ants 65 (1) 215-223
• Mallon E.B., Loosli R & Schmid-Hempel P, (2003) Specific vs. non-specific immune defence in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris L. Evolution 57 (6) 1444-1447 pub med
• Mallon E.B., Brockman, A. & Schmid-Hempel, P. (2003) Immune function inhibits memory formation in the honeybee Apis melifera. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 270 (1526) 1843-1847 pub med
• Mallon E.B. & Schmid-Hempel, P. (2004) Behavioural interactions, kin and disease susceptibility in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17(4) 829-833 pub med
• Pratt, S.C.,Sumpter D.B., Mallon, E.B. & Franks, NR (2005) An agent based decision model of nest-moving in social insects. Animal Behaviour 70 (5) 1023-1036
• Riddell C.E. & Mallon E.B. (2006) Insect psychoneuroimmunology: Immune response reduces learning in protein starved bumblebees (Bombus terrestris). Brain, Behavior and Immunity 20 (2) 135-138
• Tyler E.R., Adams , S. & Mallon E.B. (2006) An immune response in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris leads to increased food consumption. BMC Physiology 6:6 BMC webpage
• Alghamdi A., Dalton L., Phillis A., Rosato E., & Mallon E.B. (2008) Immune response impairs learning in free-flying insects. Biology Letters 4 (5) 479-481
• Alghamdi A., Raine, N.E., Rosato, E., & Mallon E.B. (2009) No evidence for an evolutionary trade-off between learning and immunity in a social insect. Biology Letters 5 (1) 55-57
• Riddell C.E., Adams S., Schmid-Hempel P., & Mallon E.B. (2009) Differential expression of Immune Defences is associated with specific host-parasite interactions in insects. Plos one 4 (10) 135-138 e7621Plos One webpage

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