Personal Home Page

http://www.bios.niu.edu/bking/bking.html

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

1. Variation in Propensity to Exhibit Thanatosis in Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)
   Journal of Insect Behavior, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 241–249, 2006
2. Resource quality affects restlessness in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis
   Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, vol. 118, no. 1, pp. 71–76, 2006
3. Using effects of parasitoid size on fitness to test a host quality model assumption with the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius
   Canadian Journal of Zoology, vol. 84, no. 11, pp. 1678–1682, 2006
4. Mate Location and the Onset of Sexual Responsiveness in the Parasitoid Wasp Spalangia endius (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)
   Environmental Entomology, vol. 35, no. 5, p. 1390, 2006
5. Males mate guard in absentia through extended effects of postcopulatory courtship in the parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)
   Journal of Insect Physiology, vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 1340–1345, 2005
6. Unattractiveness of mated females to males in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius
   Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 350–356, 2004
7. Effects of constrained females on offspring sex ratios of Nasonia vitripennis in relation to local mate competition theory
   Canadian Journal of Zoology, vol. 82, no. 12, pp. 1969–1974, 2004
8. Associative Learning of Color by Males of the Parasitoid Wasp Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)
   Journal of Insect Behavior, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 201–213, 2004
9. Journal of Insect Behavior, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 181–193, 2002
10. Sex ratio response to conspecifics in a parasitoid wasp: test of a prediction of local mate competition theory and alternative hypotheses
    Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 17–24, 2002
11. Sex ratio and oviposition responses to host age and the fitness consequences to mother and offspring in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius
    Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 316–320, 2000
12. Journal of Insect Behavior, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 55–69, 2000
13. Offspring sex ratio response to host size in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius
    Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 325–332, 1999
14. Journal of Insect Behavior, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 23–36, 1998
15. Journal of Insect Behavior, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 103–117, 1998
16. Sex ratio responses to other parasitoid wasps: multiple adaptive explanations
    Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 367–374, 1996
17. Fitness effects of sex ratio response to host quality and size in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia cameroni
    Behavioral Ecology, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 35–42, 1996
18. Effect of host density on offspring sex ratios and behavioral interactions between females in the parasitoid waspNasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)
    Journal of Insect Behavior, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 89–102, 1995
19. Sibmating and its fitness consequences in the parasitoid waspSpalangia cameroni (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)
    Journal of Insect Behavior, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 723–730, 1995
20. Effects of host size experience on sex ratios in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia cameroni
    Animal Behaviour, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 815–820, 1994
21. How do female parasitoid wasps assess host size during sex-ratio manipulation?
    Animal Behaviour, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 511–518, 1994
22. Test of the adaptiveness of sex ratio manipulation in a parasitoid wasp
    Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 437–443, 1994
23. Sex ratio response of the parasitoid wasp Muscidifurax raptor to other females
    Oecologia, vol. 94, no. 3, pp. 428–433, 1993
24. Flight activity in the parasitoid waspNasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)
    Journal of Insect Behavior, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 313–321, 1993
25. Sequence of offspring sex production in the parasitoid wasp, Nasonia vitripennis, in response to unparasitized versus parasitized hosts
    Animal Behaviour, vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 1236–1238, 1993
26. Sex-Ratio Manipulation by the Parasitoid Wasp Muscidifurax raptor in Response to Host Size
    Evolution, vol. 47, no. 6, p. 1876, 1993
27. Proximal mechanisms of the sex ratio and clutch size responses of the wasp Nasonia vitripennis to parasitized hosts
    Animal Behaviour, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 23–32, 1991
28. A Test of Local Mate Competition Theory with a Solitary Species of Parasitoid Wasp, Spalangia Cameroni
    Oikos, vol. 55, no. 1, p. 50, 1989
29. Sex-Ratio Manipulation in Response to Host Size by the Parasitoid Wasp Spalangia cameroni: A Laboratory Study
    Evolution, vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1190, 1988
30. Offspring Sex Ratios in Parasitoid Wasps
    Quarterly Review of Biology, vol. 62, no. 4, p. 367, 1987