individual publications

• academic article

  • Optimal reproductive-skew models fail to predict aggression in social wasps.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B.  27:811-817. 2004
  • Genetic support for the evolutionary theory of reproductive transactions in social wasps.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B.  267:75-79. 2000
  • Dispersal of first "workers" in social wasps: Causes and implications of an alternative reproductive strategy.  Proceedings at the National Academy of Science USA.  95:13737-13742. 1998
  • Within-group aggression and the value of group members: theory and a field test with social wasps.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.  8:75-82. 1997
  • The ecology of cooperation in social wasps: causes and consequences of alternative reproductive strategies.  Ecology.  76:953-967. 1995
  • Opportunistic adoption of orphaned nests in paper wasps as an alternative reproductive strategy.  Behavioral Processes.  30:47-60. 1993
  • Social contracts in wasp societies.  Nature.  359:823-825. 1992
• Weak queen or social contract? Reply 1993