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CHENOWETH, L, Schwarz, MP, Fuller, F, Tierney, SM and Park, YC. (2008) Hasinamelissa: a new genus of allodapine bees from Madagascar revealed by DNA sequence data and larval morphology. Systematic Entomology.

2008
KAYAALP, P & Schwarz, MP. (2008) Egg size and number is influenced by both environmental and social factors in a facultatively social bee. Australian Journal of Zoology 55 : 357-362. DOI:10.1071/ZO07022
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TIERNEY, SM, Chenoweth L, Smith JA & Schwarz MP (2008) Phylogenetics of allodapine bees: a review of social evolution, parasitism and biogeography. Apidologie 39 : 3-15. DOI:10.1051/apido:2007045
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ZAMMIT, J, Hogendoorn, K & Schwarz MP. (2008) Strong constraints to independent nesting in a facultatively social bee: quantifying the pressure posed by enemies-at-the-nest. Insectes Sociaux 55(1) : 74-78. DOI:10.1007/s00040-007-0972-3
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2007
CHENOWETH, L. & Schwarz, MP. (2007) Social Biology of two Malagasy Halterapis: Evidence that eusociality is plesiomorphic for an ancient allodapine lineage. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 100(2) : 311-319
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CHENOWETH, LB, Tierney, SM, Smith, JA, Cooper, SJB and Schwarz, MP. (2007) Social complexity in bees is not sufficient to explain lack of reversions to solitary living over long time scales. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 7 : 246 DOI:10.1186/1471-2148-7-246
BioMed Central | OA

JOYCE, NC & Schwarz, MP. (2007) Sociality and sex allocation in an Australian allodapine bee Braunsapis protuberans. Australian Journal Of Entomology 46(2) : 121-128 DOI:10.1111/j.1440-6055.2007.00590.x
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MCLEISH, MJ, Chapman, TW & Schwarz, MP. (2007) Host-driven diversification of gall-inducing Acacia thrips and the aridification of Australia. BMC Biology 5(3) DOI:10.1186/1741-7007-5-3
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MCLEISH, MJ, Crespi, BJ, Chapman, TW & Schwarz, MP. (2007) Parallel diversification of Australian gall-thrips on Acacia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43(3) : 714-725 DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.03.007
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PARK, YC, Yoo, JS, Schwarz, MP, Murphy, N & Joo-Pil, K. (2007). Molecular phylogeny of east Asian wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) inferred from mitochondrial 12S ribosomal DNA. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 100(1) : 1-8

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SCHWARZ, MP, Richards, MH & Danforth, BN. (2007) Changing paradigms in insect social evolution: new insights from halictine and allodapine bees. Annual Review of Entomology 52 : 127-150 DOI:10.1146/annurev.ento.51.110104.150950
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SMITH, JA. (2007) Facultative social parasitism in the allodapine bee Macrogalea berentyensis. Insect Science. 14 : 65-69 DOI:10.1111/j.1744-7917.2007.00127.x
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SMITH, JA, Tierney, SM, Park, YC, Fuller, S & Schwarz, MP. (2007) Origins of social parasitism: The importance of divergence ages in phylogenetic studies. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43(3) : 1131-1137 DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.12.028
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STEVENS, MI, Hogendoorn, K. & Schwarz, MP. (2007) Evolution of sociality by natural selection on variances in reproductive fitness: evidence from a social bee. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7 : 153 DOI:10.1186/1471-2148-7-153
BioMed Central | OA
2006
AENMEY, T, Tierney, SM, Pillay, N, & Schwarz MP. (2006) Nesting biology of an African allodapine bee Braunsapis vitrea: female biased sex allocation in the absence of worker-like behavioural castes. Ethology, Ecology and Evolution 18(3) : 205-220
Universit di Firenze

CHAPMAN, TW, Francis-Geyer, KL, & Schwarz, MP. (2006) The impact of kleptoparasitic invasions on the evolution of gall-size in the Australian Acacia thrips. Insect Science 13(5) : 391-400 DOI:10.1111/j.1744-7917.2006.00108.x
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CHAPMAN, TW, & Perry, SP. The evolution of fighting ability in the gall-inducing thrips of Australia In Vladilen E. Kipyatkov (Ed.) Life Cycles in Social Insects; Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution St. Petersburg University Press (2006) ISBN 5-288-04008-7 pp.113-120

JOYCE, NC, & Schwarz, MP. (2006) Sociality in the Australian allodapine bee Brevineura elongata: small colony sizes despite large benefits to group living. Journal of Insect Behaviour 19(1) : 45-61 DOI:10.1007/s10905-005-9004-1
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KLEINDORFER, S, Chapman TW, Winkler, H, & Sulloway, FJ. (2006) Adaptive divergence in contiguous populations of Darwin's small ground finch (Geopiza fuliginosa) Evolutionary Ecology Research 8(2) : 357-372
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LANGER, P, Hogendoorn, K, Schwarz, MP, & Keller, L. (2006) Reproductive skew in the allodapine bee Exoneura robusta. Animal Behaviour 71(1) : 193-201 DOI:10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.04.010
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MCLEISH, MJ, Chapman, TW, & Crespi, BJ. (2006) Inbreeding ancestors: the role of sib-mating in the social evolution of Australian gall thrips. Journal of Heredity 97(1) : 31-38 DOI:10.1093/jhered/esj001
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MCLEISH, MJ, Chapman, TW, & Mound, LA. (2006) Gall morpho-type corresponds to separate species of gall-inducing thrips (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 88(4) : 555-563 DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00641.x
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PARK, YC, Kitade, O, Schwarz, MP, Kim, JP, & Kim, W. (2006) Intraspecific molecular phylogeny, genetic variation and phylogeography of Reticulitermes speratus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae). Molecules and Cells 21(1) : 89-103
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SCHWARZ, MP, Tierney, SM, & Chapman, TW. (2006) Phylogenetic analyses of life history traits in allodapine bees and social evolution In Vladilen E. Kipyatkov (Ed.) Life Cycles in Social Insects; Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution St. Petersburg University Press (2006) ISBN 5-288-04008-7 pp.147-155 (B)

SCHWARZ, MP, Fuller, S, Tierney, SM, & Cooper, SJB. (2006) Molecular phylogenetics of the exoneurine allodapine bees reveal an ancient and puzzling dispersal from Africa to Australia. Systematic Biology 55(1) : 31-45 DOI:10.1080/10635150500431148 (A)
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SMITH JA, Schwarz, MP & Chapman, TW. (2006) Sociality within the Allodapine genus Macrogalea: insights from two Malagasy species. African Entomology 14 : 147-152
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SMITH, JA & Schwarz, MP. (2006) Sociality in a Malagasy allodapine bee, Macrogalea antanosy, and the impacts of the facultative social parasite, Macrogalea maizina. Insectes Sociaux 53(1) : 101-107 DOI:10.1007/s00040-005-0842-9
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SMITH J & Schwarz, MP. (2006) Strategic exploitation in a socially parasitic bee: A benefit in waiting? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiolgy 60(1) : 108-115 DOI:10.1007/s00265-005-0147-z
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THOMPSON, S & Schwarz, MP. (2006) Sociality and sex allocation in a tropical allodapine bee, Macrogalea candida. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 89(2) : 355-364 DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00679.x
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2005
FULLER, S, Tierney, SM, & Schwarz, MP. (2005) Phylogenetics of the allodapine bee genus Braunsapis: implications for across sea dispersal of bees. Journal of Biogeography 32(12) : 2135 DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01354.x
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SCHWARZ, MP, Tierney SM, Zammit, J, Schwarz PM, & Fuller, S. (2005). Social and nesting biology of a Malagasy species of Halterapis: implications for understanding social evolution in the allodapine bees. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 98 : 126-133
Entomological Society of America
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2004
CHAPMAN, TW. (2004) Consequences of inbreeding on the conditions necessary for balanced genetic polymorphisms in haplo-diploid populations. ACTA Zoologica Sinica 50(1) : 43-47
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POWELL, S. & Clark, E. (2004) Combat between large derived societies: A subterranean army ant established as a predator of mature leaf-cutting ant colonies. Insectes Sociaux 51 : 342-351 DOI:10.1007/s00040-004-0752-2
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PERRY, SP, Chapman, TW, Schwarz, MP, & Crespi, BJ. (2004) Proclivity and effectiveness in gall defence by soldiers in five species of gall-inducing thrips: benefits of morphological caste dimorphism in two species (Kladothrips intermedius and K. habrus) Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 56 : 602-610 DOI:10.1007/s00265-004-0811-8
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SCHWARZ , MP, Tierney, SM, Bull, NJ, & Cooper, SJB (2004). Molecular phylogenetics of the allodapine bee genus Braunsapis: A-T bias and heterogeneous substitution parameters. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32 : 110-122 DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2003.11.017
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WILLS, TE, Chapman TW, Mound, L, Kranz, BD, & Schwarz, MP (2004) Description and natural history of Oncothrips kinchega, a new species of gall-inducing thrips with soldiers (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 43 : 169-176
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2003
BULL, NJ, Schwarz, MP & Cooper, SBJ. (2003) Phylogenetic divergence of the Australian allodapine bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 27(2) : 212-222 DOI:10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00402-5
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CHAPMAN, TW (2003) An inclusive fitness-based exploration of the origin of soldiers: the roles of sex ratio, inbreeding, and soldier reproduction. Journal of Insect Behavior 16(4) : 481-501 DOI:10.1023/A:1027351206403
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MCLEISH MJ, Perry, SP, Gruber, D & Chapman, TW. (2003) Dispersal patterns of an Australian gall-forming thrips and its host tree (Oncothrips tepperi and Acacia oswaldii). Ecological Entomology 28 : 243-246
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SCHWARZ, MP, Bull, NJ & Cooper, SJB. (2003) The molecular phylogenetics of allodapine bees, with implications for the evolution of sociality and progressive rearing. Systematic Biology 52 : 1-14 DOI:10.1080/10635150390132632
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TIERNEY, SM & Schwarz, MP. (2003) Taxonomic description of allodapine bees from the Zanzibar archipelago, genus Macrogalea (Hymenoptera: Apidae). African Entomology 11(2) : 199-203 DOI:10.1080/10635150390132632
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2002
CHAPMAN, TW, Kranz, BD, Bejah, K, Morris, D, Schwarz, MP & Crespi, BJ. (2002) The evolution of reproductive skew in social thrips. Behavioural Ecology 13(4) : 519-525
Oxford Journals | OA

KRANZ, BD, Schwarz, MP, Morris, DC & Crespi, BJ. (2002) Life history of Kladothrips ellobus and Oncothrips rodwayi: insight into the origin and loss of soldiers in gall-inducing thrips. Ecological Entomology 27(1) : 49-57
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LEYS, R, Cooper, SBJ & Schwarz, MP. (2002) Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of the large carpenter bees, genus Xylocopa. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 77(2) : 249-266
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MORRIS, DC, Schwarz, MP & Crespi, BJ. (2002) Pleometrosis in Acacia phyllode-glueing thrips. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 75(4) : 467-474
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MORRIS, DC, Schwarz, MP, Cooper, SBJ & Mound, LA. (2002) Phylogenetics of Australian Acacia thrips: the evolution of behaviour and ecology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 25(2) : 278-292 DOI:10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00258-0
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PERRY, SP, McLeish, MJ, Schwarz, MP, Boyette, AH, Zammit, J & Chapman TW. (2002) Variation in propensity to defend by reproductive gall morphs in two species of gall-forming thrips. Insectes Sociaux 50(1) : 54-58 DOI:10.1007/s000400300008
Springer Birkhauser / Basel | OA.

TIERNEY, SM, Schwarz, MP, Neville, T, & Schwarz, PM. (2002) Sociality in the phylogenetically basal allodapine bee genus Macrogalea (Apidae: Xylocopinae): implications for social evolution in the tribe Allodapini. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 76(2) : 211-224 DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2002.tb02083.x
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2001
BULL, NJ & Schwarz, MP. (2001) Brood insurance via protogyny: a source of female biased sex allocation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 268 : 1869-1874 DOI:10.1098/rspb.2001.1687
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CRONIN, AL & Schwarz, MP. (2001) Latitudinal variation in the sociality of allodapine bees: sex ratios, relatedness and reproductive differentiation. Australian Journal of Zoology 49(1) : 1-16 DOI:10.1071/ZO99044
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HOGENDOORN, K, Watiniasih, NL & Schwarz, MP. (2001) Extended alloparental care in the almost solitary bee Exoneurella eremophila. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 50(3) : 275-282 DOI:10.1007/s002650100357
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KRANZ, BD, Chapman, TW, Crespi, BJ & Schwarz, MP. (2001) Social biology and sex ratios in the gall-inducing thrips, Oncothrips waterhousei and Oncothrips habrus. Insectes Sociaux 48(4) : 315-323 DOI:10.1007/PL00001783
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KRANZ, BD, Wills, TE, Chapman, TW, Morris, D, Crespi, BJ & Schwarz, MP. (2001) A fully reproductive fighting morph in a soldier clade of gall-inducing thrips. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 50(2) : 151-161 DOI:10.1007/s002650100347
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MORRIS, DC, Schwarz, MP, Crespi, BJ & Cooper, SJB. (2001) Phylogenetics of gall-inducing thrips on Australian Acacia. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 74 : 73-86 DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2001.tb01378.x
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WILLS, TE, Chapman, TW, Kranz, BD & Schwarz, MP. (2001) Reproductive division of labour coevolves with gall size in Australian thrips with soldiers. Naturwissenschaften 88(12) : 526-529 DOI:10.1007/s00114-001-0273-z
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2000
CHAPMAN, T, Crespi, BJ, Kranz, B & Schwarz, MP. (2000) High relatedness and inbreeding at the origin of eusociality in gall-inducing thrips. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97(4) : 1648-1650 DOI:10.1073/pnas.020510097
PNAS | OA

HOGENDOORN, K, Steen, Z & Schwarz, MP. (2000) Native Australian carpenter bees as a potential alternative to introducing bumble bees for tomato pollination in greenhouses. Journal of Apicultural Research 39 : 67-74
IBRA

KRANZ, BD, Schwarz, MP & Giles, LC. (2000) Split sex ratios and virginity in a gall-inducing thrips. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 13(4) : 700-706 DOI:10.1046/j.1420-9101.2000.00197.x
Blackwell | OA

LEYS, R, Cooper, SJB & Schwarz, MP. (2000) Molecular phylogeny of the large carpenter bees, genus Xylocopa (Hymenoptera: Apidae) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 17(3) : 407-418 DOI:10.1006/mpev.2000.0851

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MORRIS, D, Mound, LA & Schwarz, MP. (2000) Advenathrips inquilinus: a new genus and species of social parasites (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 39(2) : 53-57 DOI:10.1046/j.1440-6055.2000.00146.x
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SPESSA, AC, Schwarz, MP & Adams, M. (2000) Sociality in Amphylaeus morosus, an Australian colletid bee. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 93(3) : 684-692
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STEEN, Z & Schwarz, MP. (2000) Biology of two carpenter bees in the subgenus Lestis (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae). Australian Journal of Entomology 39(4) : 291-300 DOI:10.1046/j.1440-6055.2000.00195.x
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TIERNEY, SM, Cronin, AL, Loussert, N & Schwarz, MP. (2000) The biology of Brevineura froggatti and phylogenetic conservatism in Australian allodapine bees (Apidae, Allodapini). Insectes Sociaux 47(1) : 96-97 DOI:10.1007/s000400050016
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ZAMMIT, J & Schwarz, MP. (2000) Intersexual sibling interactions and male benevolence in fig wasps: A potential sex ratio modifier. Animal Behaviour 60(5) : 695-701 DOI:10.1006/anbe.2000.1522
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1999
CRONIN, AL & Schwarz, MP. (1999) Latitudinal variation in the social behaviour of allodapine bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 77(6) : 857-864 DOI:10.1139/cjz-77-6-857
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CRONIN, AL & Schwarz, MP. (1999) The lifecycle and social behaviour of Exoneura robusta (Hymenoptera: Apidae): habitat influences opportunities for sib rearing in a primitively social bee. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 92(5) : 707-716
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KRANZ, B, Schwarz, MP, Crespi, BJ & Mound, LA. (1999) Social biology and sex ratios of the eusocial gall-inducing thrips, Kladothrips hamiltoni. Ecological Entomology 24(4) : 432-442 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.1999.00207.x
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MORRIS, DC, Mound, LA, Schwarz, MP & Crespi, BJ. (1999) Morphological phylogenetics of Australian gall-inducing thrips and their allies: the evolution of host-plant affiliations, domicile use, and social behaviour. Systematic Entomology 24(3) : 289-299 DOI:10.1046/j.1365-3113.1999.00083.x
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REYES, SG, Cooper, SB & Schwarz, MP. (1999) Species phylogeny of the bee subgenus Exoneurella Michener: evidence from molecular and morphological data set. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 92(1) : 20-29
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SCHWARZ, MP & Hogendoorn, K. (1999) Biodiversity and conservation of Australian native bees. The other 99%: The conservation and biodiversity of invertebrates. Transactions of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. pp.388-393
Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
1998
BULL, NJ, Mibus, AC, Norimatsu, Y, Jarmyn, BL & Schwarz, MP. (1998) Giving your daughters the edge: bequeathing reproductive dominance in a primitively social bee. Proceedings Royal Society London Series B 265 : 1411-1415 DOI:10.1098/rspb.1998.0450
The Royal Society | OA

HOGENDOORN, K & Schwarz MP. (1998) Guarding specialisation in pre-reproductive colonies in the allodapine bee Exoneura bicolor. Ethology, Ecology and Evolution 10 : 67-77
Universit di Firenze

NEVILLE, T, Schwarz, MP & Tierney, S. (1998) Biology of a weakly social bee Exoneura (Exoneurella) setosa (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and implications for social evolution in Australian allodapine bees. Australian Journal of Zoology 46(3) : 221-234 DOI:10.1071/ZO98002
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SCHWARZ, MP, Bull, NJ & Hogendoorn, K. (1998) Evolution of sociality in the allodapine bees: a review of sex allocation, ecology and evolution. Insectes Sociaux 45(4) : 349-368 DOI:10.1007/s000400050095
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STEEN, Z & Schwarz, MP. (1998) Within-nest behaviour in a eusocial Australian allodapine bee Exoneurella tridentata (Apidae:Xylocopinae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 122 : 55-63
Royal Society Of South Australia | OA
1997
BULL, NJ, & Schwarz MP. (1997) Rearing of non-descendant offspring in an allodapine bee, Exoneura bicolor Smith (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae): A preferred strategy or queen coercion? Australian Journal of Entomology 36(4) : 391-394 DOI:10.1111/j.1440-6055.1997.tb01491.x
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CRONIN, AL & Schwarz, MP. (1997) Sex ratios, local fitness enhancement and eusociality in the allodapine bee Exoneura richardsoni. Evolutionary Ecology Research 11 : 567-577
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HURST, PS, Gray, S, Schwarz, MP, Foran, A, Tilley, J, & Adams, M. (1997) Increased nest cofounding and high intra-colony relatedness in the bee Exoneura bicolor (Hymenoptera: Apidae): results from an experimental situation. Australian Journal of Ecology 22(4) : 419-424 DOI:10.1111/j.1442-9993.1997.tb00692.x
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SCHWARZ, MP & Hurst, PS. (1997) Effects of introduced honeybees on Australia's native bee fauna. The Victorian Naturalist. 114 : 230-235
Field Naturalists Club of Victoria

TIERNEY, S, Schwarz MP & Adams, M. (1997) Social behaviour in an Australian allodapine bee Exoneura (Brevineura) xanthoclypeata. Australian Journal of Zoology 45(4) : 385-398 DOI:10.1071/ZO97022
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