| Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality P Abbot, J Abe, J Alcock, S Alizon, JAC Alpedrinha, M Andersson, ... Nature 471 (7339), E1-E4, 2011 | 545 | 2011 |
| Unicolonial ants: where do they come from, what are they and where are they going? H Helanterä, JE Strassmann, J Carrillo, DC Queller Trends in Ecology & Evolution 24 (6), 341-349, 2009 | 249 | 2009 |
| Worker reproduction and policing in insect societies: an ESS analysis T Wenseleers, H Helanterä, A Hart, FLW Ratnieks Journal of evolutionary biology 17 (5), 1035-1047, 2004 | 221 | 2004 |
| Chemical basis of nest-mate discrimination in the ant Formica exsecta SJ Martin, E Vitikainen, H Helanterä, FP Drijfhout Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275 (1640), 1271-1278, 2008 | 204 | 2008 |
| Evolution of species-specific cuticular hydrocarbon patterns in Formica ants SJ Martin, H Helanterä, FP Drijfhout Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 95 (1), 131-140, 2008 | 147 | 2008 |
| The evolution of extreme altruism and inequality in insect societies FLW Ratnieks, H Helanterä Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 364 …, 2009 | 116 | 2009 |
| Comparative transcriptomics reveals the conserved building blocks involved in parallel evolution of diverse phenotypic traits in ants C Morandin, MMY Tin, S Abril, C Gómez, L Pontieri, M Schiøtt, ... Genome biology 17, 1-19, 2016 | 106 | 2016 |
| Flower constancy in honey bee workers (Apis mellifera) depends on ecologically realistic rewards C Grüter, H Moore, N Firmin, H Helanterä, FLW Ratnieks Journal of Experimental Biology 214 (8), 1397-1402, 2011 | 104 | 2011 |
| Colony-specific Hydrocarbons Identify Nest Mates in Two Species of Formica Ant SJ Martin, H Helanterä, FP Drijfhout Journal of chemical ecology 34, 1072-1080, 2008 | 100 | 2008 |
| The Price equation and extended inheritance H Helanterä, T Uller Philosophy and Theory in Biology 2 (201306), 1-17, 2010 | 98 | 2010 |
| Not Only for Egg Yolk—Functional and Evolutionary Insights from Expression, Selection, and Structural Analyses of Formica Ant Vitellogenins C Morandin, H Havukainen, J Kulmuni, K Dhaygude, K Trontti, ... Molecular biology and evolution 31 (8), 2181-2193, 2014 | 91 | 2014 |
| An ancient and eroded social supergene is widespread across Formica ants A Brelsford, J Purcell, A Avril, PT Van, J Zhang, T Brütsch, L Sundström, ... Current Biology 30 (2), 304-311. e4, 2020 | 81 | 2020 |
| Is parasite pressure a driver of chemical cue diversity in ants? SJ Martin, H Helanterä, FP Drijfhout Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1705), 496-503, 2011 | 74 | 2011 |
| Polygyny reduces rather than increases nestmate discrimination cue diversity in Formica exsecta ants SJ Martin, H Helanterä, K Kiss, YR Lee, FP Drijfhout Insectes Sociaux 56, 375-383, 2009 | 73 | 2009 |
| From the origin of sex-determining factors to the evolution of sex-determining systems T Uller, H Helanterä The Quarterly review of biology 86 (3), 163-180, 2011 | 72 | 2011 |
| Evolution of dispersal in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a review on the dispersal strategies of sessile superorganisms SM Hakala, P Seppä, H Helanterä Österreichische Gesellschaft für Entomofaunistik, 2019 | 71 | 2019 |
| The role of brood in eusocial Hymenoptera E Schultner, J Oettler, H Helanterä The Quarterly Review of Biology 92 (1), 39-78, 2017 | 70 | 2017 |
| A metatranscriptomic approach to the identification of microbiota associated with the ant Formica exsecta H Johansson, K Dhaygude, S Lindström, H Helanterä, L Sundström, ... PLoS One 8 (11), e79777, 2013 | 68 | 2013 |
| Niche construction and conceptual change in evolutionary biology T Uller, H Helanterä The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2019 | 66 | 2019 |
| Deconstructing superorganisms and societies to address big questions in biology P Kennedy, G Baron, B Qiu, D Freitak, H Helanterä, ER Hunt, F Manfredini, ... Trends in Ecology & Evolution 32 (11), 861-872, 2017 | 62 | 2017 |