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Joël Meunier
Researcher at François Rabelais University
Publications - 73
Citations - 1745
Joël Meunier is an academic researcher from François Rabelais University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Forficula auricularia & Paternal care. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 67 publications receiving 1440 citations. Previous affiliations of Joël Meunier include University of Mainz & Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
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Social immunity and the evolution of group living in insects
TL;DR: This review provides an up-to-date appraisal of the collective and individual mechanisms of social immunity described in eusocial insects and shows that they have counterparts in non-eusocial species and even solitary species.
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The evolution of parental care in insects: the roles of ecology, life history and the social environment
TL;DR: Insects are uniquely suitable for experimental and comparative research on the complex interplay between ecology, life history, and the social environment, and how these social interactions may in turn be influenced by ecological factors such as food availability or population density is discussed.
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Maternal care provides antifungal protection to eggs in the European earwig
TL;DR: This study shows that maternal egg attendance in the European earwig has a social defense function protecting offspring against mold infection, probably through both the mechanical removal of spores and the continued application of chemical substances on the egg surface.
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Split sex ratios in the social Hymenoptera: a meta-analysis
TL;DR: A meta-analysis shows that workers often bias colony sex allocation in their favor as predicted by split sex ratio theory, even if their control is incomplete and a large part of the variation among colonies has other causes.
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One clutch or two clutches? : Fitness correlates of coexisting alternative female life-histories in the European earwig
Joël Meunier,Janine W. Y. Wong,Yamenah Gómez,Sabine Kuttler,Lilian Röllin,Dimitri Stucki,Mathias Kölliker +6 more
TL;DR: Estimation of potential fitness payoffs and levels of maternal care in semel- and itero-parous females of the European earwig Forficula auricularia indicates that alternative modes of parity represent coexisting life-history tactics that are likely to be condition-dependent and associated with offspring development and specific levels of paternal care in earwigs.