| Genetic, individual, and group facilitation of disease resistance in insect societies N Wilson-Rich, M Spivak, NH Fefferman, PT Starks Annual review of entomology 54 (1), 405-423, 2009 | 498 | 2009 |
| The ontogeny of immunity: development of innate immune strength in the honey bee (Apis mellifera) N Wilson-Rich, ST Dres, PT Starks Journal of insect physiology 54 (10-11), 1392-1399, 2008 | 290 | 2008 |
| Fever in honeybee colonies PT Starks, CA Blackie, TD Seeley Naturwissenschaften 87, 229-231, 2000 | 283 | 2000 |
| Genetic support for the evolutionary theory of reproductive transactions in social wasps HK Reeve, PT Starks, JM Peters, P Nonacs Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2000 | 129 | 2000 |
| The action component of recognition systems: a focus on the response AE Liebert, PT Starks Annales Zoologici Fennici, 747-764, 2004 | 110 | 2004 |
| Paternity uncertainty overrides sex chromosome selection for preferential grandparenting ER Chrastil, WM Getz, HA Euler, PT Starks Evolution and Human Behavior 27 (3), 206-223, 2006 | 100 | 2006 |
| Context-dependent nestmate discrimination in the paper wasp, Polistes dominulus: a critical test of the optimal acceptance threshold model P T STARKS, DJ Fischer, RE Watson, GL Melikian, S D NATH Animal Behaviour 56 (2), 449-458, 1998 | 100 | 1998 |
| Genetics, behavior and ecology of a paper wasp invasion: Polistes dominulus in North America AE Liebert, GJ Gamboa, NE Stamp, TR Curtis, KM Monnet, S Turillazzi, ... Annales Zoologici Fennici, 595-624, 2006 | 99 | 2006 |
| Evolution of a major drug metabolizing enzyme defect in the domestic cat and other felidae: phylogenetic timing and the role of hypercarnivory B Shrestha, JM Reed, PT Starks, GE Kaufman, JV Goldstone, ME Roelke, ... PLoS One 6 (3), e18046, 2011 | 90 | 2011 |
| Dispersal of first “workers” in social wasps: causes and implications of an alternative reproductive strategy HK Reeve, JM Peters, P Nonacs, PT Starks Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95 (23), 13737-13742, 1998 | 89 | 1998 |
| A Surprising Level of Genetic Diversity in an Invasive Wasp: Polistes dominulus in the Northeastern United States RN Johnson, PT Starks Annals of the Entomological Society of America 97 (4), 732-737, 2004 | 79 | 2004 |
| Heat shielding: a novel method of colonial thermoregulation in honey bees PT Starks, DC Gilley Naturwissenschaften 86, 438-440, 1999 | 73 | 1999 |
| Triploid females and diploid males: underreported phenomena in Polistes wasps? AE Liebert, RN Johnson, GT Switz, PT Starks Insectes Sociaux 51, 205-211, 2004 | 69 | 2004 |
| The effect of queen number on nestmate discrimination in the facultatively polygynous ant Pseudomyrmex pallidus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) PT Starks, RE Watson, MJ Dipaola, CP Dipaola Ethology 104 (7), 573-584, 1998 | 64 | 1998 |
| Taming of the skew: transactional models fail to predict reproductive partitioning in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus AE Liebert, PT Starks Animal Behaviour 71 (4), 913-923, 2006 | 58 | 2006 |
| Context and control: behavioural ecology experiments in the laboratory DLM Campbell, SA Weiner, PT Starks, ME Hauber Annales Zoologici Fennici 46 (2), 112-123, 2009 | 57 | 2009 |
| Seasonality of salt foraging in honey bees (Apis mellifera) RE Bonoan, TM Tai, M Tagle Rodriguez, L Feller, SR Daddario, RA Czaja, ... Ecological Entomology 42 (2), 195-201, 2017 | 55 | 2017 |
| Transactional skew and assured fitness return models fail to predict patterns of cooperation in wasps P Nonacs, AE Liebert, PT Starks The American Naturalist 167 (4), 467-480, 2006 | 53 | 2006 |
| Diploid males and their triploid offspring in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus AE Liebert, A Sumana, PT Starks Biology Letters 1 (2), 200-203, 2005 | 51 | 2005 |
| Alternative reproductive tactics in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus with specific focus on the sit-and-wait tactic PT Starks Annales Zoologici Fennici, 189-199, 2001 | 50 | 2001 |
