| The role of queen pheromones in social insects: queen control or queen signal? L Keller, P Nonacs Animal behaviour 45 (4), 787-794, 1993 | 597 | 1993 |
| State dependent behavior and the marginal value theorem P Nonacs Behavioral Ecology 12 (1), 71-83, 2001 | 332 | 2001 |
| Mortality risk vs. food quality trade‐offs in a common currency: ant patch preferences P Nonacs, LM Dill Ecology 71 (5), 1886-1892, 1990 | 271 | 1990 |
| Ant reproductive strategies and sex allocation theory P Nonacs The Quarterly Review of Biology 61 (1), 1-21, 1986 | 252 | 1986 |
| Measuring and using skew in the study of social behavior and evolution P Nonacs The American Naturalist 156 (6), 577-589, 2000 | 213 | 2000 |
| Queen number in colonies of social Hymenoptera as a kin‐selected adaptation P Nonacs Evolution 42 (3), 566-580, 1988 | 185 | 1988 |
| Sex ratios and multifaceted parental investment JA Rosenheim, P Nonacs, M Mangel The American Naturalist 148 (3), 501-535, 1996 | 176 | 1996 |
| The red and the black: habituation and the dear-enemy phenomenon in two desert Pheidole ants TA Langen, F Tripet, P Nonacs Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 48 (4), 285-292, 2000 | 164 | 2000 |
| The past, present and future of reproductive skew theory and experiments P Nonacs, R Hager Biological Reviews 86 (2), 271-298, 2011 | 136 | 2011 |
| Social heterosis and the maintenance of genetic diversity P Nonacs, KM Kapheim Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20 (6), 2253-2265, 2007 | 132 | 2007 |
| 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 | 128 | 2000 |
| Social contracts in wasp societies HK Reeve, P Nonacs Nature 359 (6398), 823-825, 1992 | 122 | 1992 |
| Foraging for work and age‐based polyethism: the roles of age and previous experience on task choice in ants F Tripet, P Nonacs Ethology 110 (11), 863-877, 2004 | 121 | 2004 |
| Sex-ratio determination within colonies of ants P Nonacs Evolution, 199-204, 1986 | 112 | 1986 |
| The ecology of cooperation in wasps: causes and consequences of alternative reproductive decisions P Nonacs, HK Reeve Ecology 76 (3), 953-967, 1995 | 109 | 1995 |
| Measuring the reliability of skew indices: is there one best index? P Nonacs Animal Behaviour 65, 615-627, 2003 | 107 | 2003 |
| Support for maternal manipulation of developmental nutrition in a facultatively eusocial bee, Megalopta genalis (Halictidae) KM Kapheim, SP Bernal, AR Smith, P Nonacs, WT Wcislo Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 65 (6), 1179-1190, 2011 | 97 | 2011 |
| Selfish larvae: development and the evolution of parasitic behavior in the Hymenoptera P Nonacs, JE Tobin Evolution 46 (6), 1605-1620, 1992 | 95 | 1992 |
| When can ants discriminate the sex of brood? A new aspect of queen-worker conflict. P Nonacs, NF Carlin Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 87 (24), 9670-9673, 1990 | 95 | 1990 |
| 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 | 92 | 1998 |
