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 | 73 | 2019 |
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 | 44 | 2014 |
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 | 35 | 2017 |
Queen killing is linked to high worker-worker relatedness in a social wasp KJ Loope Current Biology 25 (22), 2976-2979, 2015 | 31 | 2015 |
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 | 27 | 2018 |
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 | 23 | 2021 |
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 | 17 | 2016 |
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 | 15 | 2021 |
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 | 14 | 2020 |
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 | 14 | 2018 |
Do queen cuticular hydrocarbons inhibit worker reproduction in Bombus impatiens? V Melgarejo, EE Wilson Rankin, KJ Loope Insectes Sociaux 65 (4), 601-608, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
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 | 11 | 2016 |
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 | 10 | 2020 |
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 | 9 | 2022 |
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 | 9 | 2017 |
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 | 7 | 2015 |
A test of adaptive hypotheses for rapid nest construction in a swarm-founding wasp KJ Loope, RL Jeanne Insectes sociaux 55, 274-282, 2008 | 7 | 2008 |
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 | 6 | 2023 |
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 | 6 | 2021 |
Matricide and queen sex allocation in a yellowjacket wasp KJ Loope The Science of Nature 103, 1-11, 2016 | 6 | 2016 |