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Reproductive harmony via mutual policing by workers in eusocial Hymenoptera FLW Ratnieks The American Naturalist 132 (2), 217-236, 1988 | 805 | 1988 |
Conflict resolution in insect societies FLW Ratnieks, KR Foster, T Wenseleers Annu. Rev. Entomol. 51, 581-608, 2006 | 664 | 2006 |
Worker policing in the honeybee FLW Ratnieks, PK Visscher Nature 342 (6251), 796-797, 1989 | 636 | 1989 |
Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality P Abbot, J Abe, J Alcock, S Alizon, JAC Alpedrinha, M Andersson, ... Nature 471 (7339), E1-E4, 2011 | 552 | 2011 |
An evolutionary ecology of individual differences SRX Dall, AM Bell, DI Bolnick, FLW Ratnieks Ecology letters 15 (10), 1189-1198, 2012 | 532 | 2012 |
Paternity in eusocial Hymenoptera JJ Boomsma, FLW Ratnieks Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B …, 1996 | 532 | 1996 |
Kin selection is the key to altruism KR Foster, T Wenseleers, FLW Ratnieks Trends in ecology & evolution 21 (2), 57-60, 2006 | 489 | 2006 |
Clarity on honey bee collapse? FLW Ratnieks, NL Carreck Science 327 (5962), 152-153, 2010 | 397 | 2010 |
Queen-queen conflicts in polygynous societies: mutual tolerance and reproductive skew HK Reeve Queen number and sociality in insects, 45-85, 1993 | 372 | 1993 |
Conflict in single-queen hymenopteran societies: the structure of conflict and processes that reduce conflict in advanced eusocial species FLW Ratnieks, HK Reeve Journal of Theoretical Biology 158 (1), 33-65, 1992 | 334 | 1992 |
Phase transition between disordered and ordered foraging in Pharaoh's ants M Beekman, DJT Sumpter, FLW Ratnieks Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98 (17), 9703-9706, 2001 | 301 | 2001 |
Quantifying variation among garden plants in attractiveness to bees and other flower‐visiting insects M Garbuzov, FLW Ratnieks Functional Ecology 28 (2), 364-374, 2014 | 280 | 2014 |
Egg-laying, egg-removal, and ovary development by workers in queenright honey bee colonies FLW Ratnieks Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 32, 191-198, 1993 | 258 | 1993 |
Communication in ants DE Jackson, FLW Ratnieks Current biology 16 (15), R570-R574, 2006 | 253 | 2006 |
Comparative analysis of worker reproduction and policing in eusocial Hymenoptera supports relatedness theory T Wenseleers, FLW Ratnieks The American Naturalist 168 (6), E163-E179, 2006 | 249 | 2006 |
Task partitioning in insect societies FLW Ratnieks, C Anderson Insectes sociaux 46, 95-108, 1999 | 246 | 1999 |
Enforced altruism in insect societies T Wenseleers, FLW Ratnieks Nature 444 (7115), 50-50, 2006 | 244 | 2006 |
Altruism in insect societies and beyond: voluntary or enforced? FLW Ratnieks, T Wenseleers Trends in ecology & evolution 23 (1), 45-52, 2008 | 234 | 2008 |