1. Best Paper of 2016: International Union for the Study of Social Insects

   Announcement 08 February 2017 Pages: 1 - 1

2. Usurping the queen

   • Michael D. Breed

   Highlighted Article 04 February 2017 Pages: 3 - 4

3. When does cheating pay? Worker reproductive parasitism in honeybees

   • M. J. Holmes
   • M. Beekman

   Review Article 11 October 2016 Pages: 5 - 17

   

4. Inferring polydomy: a review of functional, spatial and genetic methods for identifying colony boundaries

   • S. Ellis
   • D. S. Procter
   • E. J. H. Robinson

   Review Article Open access 05 December 2016 Pages: 19 - 37

   

5. Soldiers with large weapons behave aggressively against predators: correlated morphological and behavioral defensive traits in a eusocial aphid

   • M. Hattori
   • O. Kishida
   • T. Itino

   Research Article 06 September 2016 Pages: 39 - 44

   

6. Consequences of leaf-cutting ants on plant fitness: integrating negative effects of herbivory and positive effects from soil improvement

   • A. G. Farji-Brener
   • M. Tadey

   Research Article 12 September 2016 Pages: 45 - 54

   

7. Homeward navigation in Pogonomyrmex occidentalis harvester ants

   • C. M. Winter
   • M. D. Breed

   Research Article 12 September 2016 Pages: 55 - 64

   

8. A genetic bottleneck in populations of a New Zealand endemic ant associated with density of an invasive predatory wasp

   • A. R. Burne
   • P. A. Ritchie
   • P. J. Lester

   Research Article 17 September 2016 Pages: 65 - 74

   

9. The effects of disturbance threat on leaf-cutting ant colonies: a laboratory study

   • V. C. Norman
   • T. Pamminger
   • W. O. H. Hughes

   Research Article Open access 15 September 2016 Pages: 75 - 85

   

10. DNA methylation of Kr-h1 is involved in regulating ovary activation in worker honeybees (Apis mellifera)

    • M. Kilaso
    • E. J. Remnant
    • C. Chanchao

    Research Article 13 October 2016 Pages: 87 - 94

    

11. Mutual intra- and interspecific social parasitism between parapatric sister species of Vespula wasps

    • T. Saga
    • M. Kanai
    • Y. Okada

    Research Article 14 October 2016 Pages: 95 - 101

    

12. Heterogeneous distribution of castes/instars and behaviors in the nest of Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki

    • H. Du
    • T. Chouvenc
    • N.-Y. Su

    Research Article 11 November 2016 Pages: 103 - 112

    

13. Caste regulation in the ant Monomorium pharaonis (L.) with emphasis on the role of queens

    • S. Boonen
    • J. Billen

    Research Article 16 November 2016 Pages: 113 - 121

    

14. Social structure of the polygynous ant, Crematogaster osakensis

    • A. Gotoh
    • M. Dansho
    • F. Ito

    Research Article 17 November 2016 Pages: 123 - 131

    

15. Female-only workers and soldiers in Schedorhinotermes intermedius are not produced by parthenogenesis

    • T. R. C. Lee
    • T. Bourguignon
    • N. Lo

    Research Article 11 November 2016 Pages: 133 - 139

16. Outnumbered: a new dominant ant species with genetically diverse supercolonies in Ethiopia

    • D. M. Sorger
    • W. Booth
    • M. W. Moffett

    Research Article 21 November 2016 Pages: 141 - 147

    

17. The mitochondrial genome of Octostruma stenognatha and its phylogenetic implications

    • P. R. Ströher
    • E. Zarza
    • M. R. Pie

    Research Article 12 November 2016 Pages: 149 - 154

    

18. Diversity and distribution of ant assemblages above and below ground in a West African forest–savannah mosaic (Lamto, Côte d’Ivoire)

    • K. Yeo
    • T. Delsinne
    • C. Peeters

    Research Article 28 November 2016 Pages: 155 - 168

    

19. Invasive fire ants contain high levels of mercury

    • J. A. Helms IV.
    • B. Tweedy

    Short Communication 12 September 2016 Pages: 169 - 171

    

20. Reviewers 2016

    Acknowledgement to Reviewers 03 February 2017 Pages: 173 - 174

21. International Union for the Study of Social Insects

    Annual Report 09 February 2017 Pages: 175 - 175