| An empirical test of Lanchester's square law: mortality during battles of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta NJR Plowes, ES Adams Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 272 (1574), 1809-1814, 2005 | 71 | 2005 |
| Foraging behavior in the ant genus Messor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) NJR Plowes, RA Johnson, B Hoelldobler Myrmecological News 18, 33-49, 2013 | 70 | 2013 |
| Metalloproteinase-dependent cleavage of neuregulin and autocrine stimulation of vascular endothelial cells A Kalinowski, NJR Plowes, Q Huang, C Berdejo-Izquierdo, RR Russell, ... The FASEB Journal 24 (7), 2567, 2010 | 50 | 2010 |
| An introduction to eusociality N Plowes Nature Education Knowledge 3 (10), 7, 2010 | 35 | 2010 |
| A field key to the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) found at Brackenridge field laboratories, Austin, Travis County, Texas NJR Plowes, R Patrock Austin (US): Brackenridge Field Laboratories University of Texas 1, 1-22, 2000 | 22 | 2000 |
| Pygidial gland chemistry and potential alarm-recruitment function in column foraging, but not solitary, Nearctic Messor harvesting ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) B Hölldobler, NJR Plowes, RA Johnson, U Nishshanka, C Liu, ... Journal of insect physiology 59 (9), 863-869, 2013 | 18 | 2013 |
| Not just going with the flow: foraging ants attend to polarised light even while on the pheromone trail CA Freas, NJR Plowes, ML Spetch Journal of Comparative Physiology A 205 (5), 755-767, 2019 | 16 | 2019 |
| Chemical communication during foraging in the harvesting ants Messor pergandei and Messor andrei NJR Plowes, T Colella, RA Johnson, B Hölldobler Journal of Comparative Physiology A 200, 129-137, 2014 | 16 | 2014 |
| Solenopsis invicta virus 3: further host-specificity tests with native Solenopsis ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) SD Porter, SM Valles, AL Wild, R Dieckmann, NJR Plowes Florida Entomologist 98 (1), 122-125, 2015 | 15 | 2015 |
| Same but different: socially foraging ants backtrack like individually foraging ants but use different mechanisms CA Freas, JV Congdon, NJR Plowes, ML Spetch Journal of insect physiology 118, 103944, 2019 | 14 | 2019 |
| New exocrine glands in ants: the hypostomal gland and basitarsal gland in the genus Melissotarsus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) B Hölldobler, M Obermayer, NJR Plowes, BL Fisher Naturwissenschaften 101, 527-532, 2014 | 12 | 2014 |
| Odometry and backtracking: social and individual navigation in group foraging desert harvester ants (Veromessor pergandei) N Plowes, Y Du, JV Congdon, V Bulitko, ES Soares, ML Spetch Animal Cognition 22 (1), 35-47, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
| An empirically based simulation of group foraging in the harvesting ant, Messor pergandei NJR Plowes, K Ramsch, M Middendorf, B Hölldobler Journal of Theoretical Biology 340, 186-198, 2014 | 9 | 2014 |
| Self organized conflicts in territorial ants NJR Plowes University of Connecticut, 2008 | 9 | 2008 |
| Pheromone cue triggers switch between vectors in the desert harvest ant, Veromessor pergandei CA Freas, JV Congdon, NJR Plowes, ML Spetch Animal Cognition 23 (6), 1087-1105, 2020 | 8 | 2020 |
| Self-organizing conflicts: Group assessment and the spatio-temporal dynamics of ant territory battles ES Adams, NJR Plowes Behavioural processes 162, 119-129, 2019 | 5 | 2019 |
| Mechanistic models of conflict between ant colonies and their consequences for territory scaling FR Adler, S Quinonez, N Plowes, ES Adams The American Naturalist 192 (2), 204-216, 2018 | 5 | 2018 |
| Traveling through light clutter: Path integration and panorama guided navigation in the Sonoran Desert ant, Novomessor cockerelli CA Freas, NJR Plowes, ML Spetch Behavioural Processes 186, 104373, 2021 | 4 | 2021 |
| Chemical communication during column foraging in Nearctic Messor species N Plowes, B Hoelldobler IUSSI, 2014 | | 2014 |
| Self-organizing conflicts: Modeling the spatio-temporal dynamics of territorial battles of the pavement ant Tetramorium caespitum N Plowes The 2007 ESA Annual Meeting, December 9-12, 2007, 2007 | | 2007 |
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