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Kevin Loope
Kevin Loope
Dept of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech
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Pathogen shifts in a honeybee predator following the arrival of the Varroa mite
KJ Loope, JW Baty, PJ Lester, EE Wilson Rankin
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286 (1894), 20182499, 2019
732019
Colony size is linked to paternity frequency and paternity skew in yellowjacket wasps and hornets
KJ Loope, C Chien, M Juhl
BMC evolutionary biology 14 (1), 2625, 2014
442014
Fitness in invasive social wasps: the role of variation in viral load, immune response and paternity in predicting nest size and reproductive output
J Dobelmann, KJ Loope, E Wilson‐Rankin, O Quinn, JW Baty, ...
Oikos 126 (8), 1208-1218, 2017
352017
Queen killing is linked to high worker-worker relatedness in a social wasp
KJ Loope
Current Biology 25 (22), 2976-2979, 2015
312015
WASPnest: a worldwide assessment of social Polistine nesting behavior
SE Miller, SE Bluher, E Bell, A Cini, RC Silva, AR Souza, KM Gandia, ...
Ecology 99 (10), 2405-2405, 2018
272018
Evolutionary and ecological pressures shaping social wasps collective defenses
M Detoni, X Feás, RL Jeanne, KJ Loope, S O’Donnell, D Santoro, ...
Annals of the Entomological Society of America 114 (5), 581-595, 2021
232021
Asymmetry within social groups: division of labour and intergroup competition
JL Barker, KJ Loope, HK Reeve
Journal of evolutionary biology 29 (3), 560-571, 2016
172016
Viral load, not food availability or temperature, predicts colony longevity in an invasive eusocial wasp with plastic life history
KJ Loope, EE Wilson Rankin
Scientific Reports 11 (1), 10087, 2021
152021
Polyandry and paternity affect disease resistance in eusocial wasps
T Saga, M Okuno, KJ Loope, K Tsuchida, K Ohbayashi, M Shimada, ...
Behavioral Ecology 31 (5), 1172-1179, 2020
142020
Weak nestmate discrimination behavior in native and invasive populations of a yellowjacket wasp (Vespula pensylvanica)
KJ Loope, JG Millar, EE Wilson Rankin
Biological Invasions 20 (12), 3431-3444, 2018
142018
Do queen cuticular hydrocarbons inhibit worker reproduction in Bombus impatiens?
V Melgarejo, EE Wilson Rankin, KJ Loope
Insectes Sociaux 65 (4), 601-608, 2018
112018
Caught in an evolutionary trap: worker honey bees that have drifted into foreign colonies do not invest in ovary activation
ML Smith, KJ Loope
Insectes Sociaux 63, 61-65, 2016
112016
Vespula wasps show consistent differences in colony-level aggression over time and across contexts
JM Jandt, M Detoni, KJ Loope, D Santoro
Insectes Sociaux 67 (3), 367-381, 2020
102020
Five decades of misunderstanding in the social Hymenoptera: a review and meta‐analysis of Michener's paradox
RL Jeanne, KJ Loope, AM Bouwma, EV Nordheim, ML Smith
Biological reviews, 2022
92022
Convergent reversion to single mating in a wasp social parasite
KJ Loope, F Lopez-Osorio, L Dvořák
The American Naturalist 189 (6), E138-E151, 2017
92017
Patriline Differences Reveal Genetic Influence on Forewing Size and Shape in a Yellowjacket Wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Vespula flavopilosa Jacobson, 1978)
A Perrard, KJ Loope
Plos one 10 (7), e0130064, 2015
72015
A test of adaptive hypotheses for rapid nest construction in a swarm-founding wasp
KJ Loope, RL Jeanne
Insectes sociaux 55, 274-282, 2008
72008
Honey bees and social wasps reach convergent architectural solutions to nest-building problems
ML Smith, KJ Loope, B Chuttong, J Dobelmann, JC Makinson, T Saga, ...
PLoS Biology 21 (7), e3002211, 2023
62023
Microbiome of the wasp Vespula pensylvanica in native and invasive populations, and associations with Moku virus
JA Rothman, KJ Loope, QS McFrederick, EE Wilson Rankin
Plos one 16 (7), e0255463, 2021
62021
Matricide and queen sex allocation in a yellowjacket wasp
KJ Loope
The Science of Nature 103, 1-11, 2016
62016
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