Publications

Dec 2012

Temporal patterns of den use suggest polygamous mating patterns in an obligate monogamous mammal

Kotze, Robynne, Bennett, Nigel C., Cameron, Elissa Z., Low de Vries, J. et al.

Animal Behaviour

Mating systems in animal societies contain both social and genetic components. Deviations between these components may have...

2012

How healthy are our honeybees - Health check of a major pollinator

Pirk, C. W. W., Human, H.

South African Journal of Botany

May 2012

Reproductive Biology of the Cape Honeybee: A Critique of Beekman et al

Pirk, Christian W. W., Lattorff, H. Michael G., Moritz, Robin F. A., Sole, Catherine L. et al.

Journal of Heredity

Laying workers of the Cape honeybee parthenogenetically produce female offspring, whereas queens typically produce males. Beekman...

2012

The pheromones of laying workers in two honeybee sister species: Apis cerana and Apis mellifera

Tan, Ken, Yang, Ming-Xian, Wang, Zheng-Wei, Radloff, Sarah E. et al.

Journal of Comparative Physiology A

When a honeybee colony loses its queen, workers activate their ovaries and begin to lay eggs. This is accompanied by a shift in...

Dec 2011

A scientific note on the lack of effect of mandible ablation on the synthesis of royal scent by honeybee queens

Zheng, Huo-Qing, Dietemann, Vincent, Hu, Fu-Liang, Crewe, Robin et al.

Apidologie

Aug 2011

) Commercial rhizobial inoculants significantly enhance growth and nitrogen fixation of a promiscuous soybean variety in Kenyan soils.

Thuita M, Pypers P, Herrmann L, Okalebo JR et al.

Biology and Fertility of soils

Low effectiveness of native strains remains a limitation to soybean productivity in sub-Saharan Africa; while in other countries...

May 2012

Cryptococcus cyanovorans sp. nov., a basidiomycetous yeast isolated from cyanide-contaminated soil

Motaung TE, Albertyn J, Kock JLF, Pohl CH

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Eighteen yeast strains were isolated and identified from cyanide-contaminated soil in South Africa. According to sequence-based...

Jul 2012

Pantoea rodasii sp. nov., Pantoea rwandensis sp. nov. and Pantoea wallisii sp. nov., isolated from Eucalyptus

Brady Carrie L, Cleenwerck I, van der Westhuizen L., Venter S. N. et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Several Gram-negative-staining, facultatively anaerobic bacterial isolates were obtained from Eucalyptus seedlings showing...

Jun 2012

Controlled disorder in plant light-harvesting complex II explains its photoprotective role

Krüger, T.P.J., Ilioaia, C., Johnson, M.P., Ruban, A.V. et al.

Biophysical Journal

The light-harvesting antenna of photosystem II (PSII) has the ability to switch rapidly between a state of efficient light use...