| Nestmate recognition in social insects and the role of hydrocarbons JS van Zweden, P d’Ettorre Insect hydrocarbons: biology, biochemistry and chemical ecology 11, 222-243, 2010 | 413 | 2010 |
| Conserved class of queen pheromones stops social insect workers from reproducing A Van Oystaeyen, RC Oliveira, L Holman, JS van Zweden, C Romero, ... Science 343 (6168), 287-290, 2014 | 332 | 2014 |
| The origin and evolution of social insect queen pheromones: novel hypotheses and outstanding problems CA Oi, JS van Zweden, RC Oliveira, A Van Oystaeyen, FS Nascimento, ... BioEssays 37 (7), 808-821, 2015 | 137 | 2015 |
| Disentangling environmental and heritable nestmate recognition cues in a carpenter ant JS van Zweden, S Dreier, P d’Ettorre Journal of Insect Physiology 55 (2), 159-164, 2009 | 108 | 2009 |
| Blending of heritable recognition cues among ant nestmates creates distinct colony gestalt odours but prevents within‐colony nepotism JS van Zweden, JB Brask, JH Christensen, JJ Boomsma, TA Linksvayer, ... Journal of evolutionary biology 23 (7), 1498-1508, 2010 | 102 | 2010 |
| Insect hydrocarbons: biology, biochemistry, and chemical ecology JS Van Zweden, P d’Ettorre, GJ Blomquist, AG Bagnčres Nestmate recognition in social insects and the role of hydrocarbons …, 2010 | 69 | 2010 |
| Dual effect of wasp queen pheromone in regulating insect sociality CA Oi, A Van Oystaeyen, RC Oliveira, JG Millar, KJ Verstrepen, ... Current Biology 25 (12), 1638-1640, 2015 | 59 | 2015 |
| Long-term memory of individual identity in ant queens S Dreier, JS Van Zweden, P D'Ettorre Biology Letters 3 (5), 459-462, 2007 | 59 | 2007 |
| Hovering guards of the stingless bee Tetragonisca angustula increase colony defensive perimeter as shown by intra- and inter-specific comparisons JS van Zweden, C Grüter, SM Jones, FLW Ratnieks Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 65, 1277-1282, 2011 | 49 | 2011 |
| Functional role of phenylacetic acid from metapleural gland secretions in controlling fungal pathogens in evolutionarily derived leaf-cutting ants H Fernández-Marín, DR Nash, S Higginbotham, C Estrada, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1807), 20150212, 2015 | 47 | 2015 |
| Queen signaling in social wasps JS van Zweden, W Bonckaert, T Wenseleers, P d'Ettorre Evolution, 2014 | 47 | 2014 |
| The role of wax and resin in the nestmate recognition system of a stingless bee, Tetragonisca angustula SM Jones, JS van Zweden, C Grüter, C Menezes, DA Alves, ... Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 66, 1-12, 2012 | 47 | 2012 |
| Conservation of queen pheromones across two species of vespine wasps CA Oi, JG Millar, JS van Zweden, T Wenseleers Journal of Chemical Ecology 42, 1175-1180, 2016 | 42 | 2016 |
| Specialization in policing behaviour among workers in the ant Pachycondyla inversa JS Van Zweden, MA Fürst, J Heinze, P d'Ettorre Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274 (1616), 1421-1428, 2007 | 42 | 2007 |
| Crozier's paradox revisited: maintenance of genetic recognition systems by disassortative mating L Holman, JS Van Zweden, TA Linksvayer, P d'Ettorre BMC evolutionary biology 13 (1), 211, 2013 | 40 | 2013 |
| Rapid decision-making with side-specific perceptual discrimination in ants N Stroeymeyt, FJ Guerrieri, JS van Zweden, P d'Ettorre PLoS One 5 (8), e12377, 2010 | 39 | 2010 |
| Ant queen egg-marking signals: matching deceptive laboratory simplicity with natural complexity JS van Zweden, J Heinze, JJ Boomsma, P d'Ettorre PLoS One 4 (3), e4718, 2009 | 37 | 2009 |
| The evolution of honest queen pheromones in insect societies JS van Zweden Communicative & Integrative Biology 3 (1), 50-52, 2010 | 35 | 2010 |
| The scent of symbiosis: gut bacteria may affect social interactions in leaf-cutting ants S Teseo, JS van Zweden, L Pontieri, PW Kooij, SJ Sřrensen, ... Animal Behaviour 150, 239-254, 2019 | 34 | 2019 |
| Colony stage and not facultative policing explains pattern of worker reproduction in the Saxon wasp W Bonckaert, JS van Zweden, P d'Ettorre, J Billen, T Wenseleers Molecular Ecology, 2011 | 34 | 2011 |
Tom WenseleersProfessor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Leuven, BelgiumVerified email at kuleuven.be
