| Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality P Abbot, J Abe, J Alcock, S Alizon, JAC Alpedrinha, M Andersson, ... Nature 471 (7339), E1-E4, 2011 | 546 | 2011 |
| The genome of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta Y Wurm, J Wang, O Riba-Grognuz, M Corona, S Nygaard, BG Hunt, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (14), 5679-5684, 2011 | 408 | 2011 |
| The evolution of male traits in social insects JJ Boomsma, B Baer, J Heinze Annu. Rev. Entomol. 50 (1), 395-420, 2005 | 384 | 2005 |
| Moribund ants leave their nests to die in social isolation J Heinze, B Walter Current Biology 20 (3), 249-252, 2010 | 248 | 2010 |
| Apparent Dear‐enemy Phenomenon and Environment‐based Recognition Cues in the Ant Leptothorax nylanderi J Heinze, S Foitzik, A Hippert, B Hölldobler Ethology 102 (3), 510-522, 1996 | 245 | 1996 |
| Transposable element islands facilitate adaptation to novel environments in an invasive species L Schrader, JW Kim, D Ence, A Zimin, A Klein, K Wyschetzki, ... Nature communications 5 (1), 5495, 2014 | 225 | 2014 |
| The ecology of communal breeding: the case of multiple-queen leptothoracine ants AFG Bourke, J Heinze Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B …, 1994 | 206 | 1994 |
| Does she smell like a queen? Chemoreception of a cuticular hydrocarbon signal in the ant Pachycondyla inversa P D'Ettorre, J Heinze, C Schulz, W Francke, M Ayasse Journal of Experimental Biology 207 (7), 1085-1091, 2004 | 177 | 2004 |
| Nest site limitation and colony takeover in the ant Leptothorax nylanderi S Foitzik, J Heinze Behavioral Ecology 9 (4), 367-375, 1998 | 174 | 1998 |
| Ant reproductive strategies J Heinze, K Tsuji Population Ecology 37 (2), 135-149, 1995 | 174 | 1995 |
| Alternative reproductive strategies: a queen perspective in ants J Heinze, L Keller Trends in Ecology & Evolution 15 (12), 508-512, 2000 | 157 | 2000 |
| Individual recognition in ant queens P D'Ettorre, J Heinze Current Biology 15 (23), 2170-2174, 2005 | 153 | 2005 |
| Fighting for a harem of queens: physiology of reproduction in Cardiocondyla male ants. J Heinze, B Hölldobler Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 90 (18), 8412-8414, 1993 | 150 | 1993 |
| Clonal reproduction and genetic caste differences in a queen-polymorphic ant, Vollenhovia emeryi K Ohkawara, M Nakayama, A Satoh, A Trindl, J Heinze Biology letters 2 (3), 359-363, 2006 | 146 | 2006 |
| Worker rank, reproductive status and cuticular hydrocarbon signature in the ant, Pachycondyla cf. inversa J Heinze, B Stengl, MF Sledge Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 52, 59-65, 2002 | 142 | 2002 |
| The coevolutionary dynamics of obligate ant social parasite systems–between prudence and antagonism M Brandt, S Foitzik, B Fischer-Blass, J Heinze Biological Reviews 80 (2), 251-267, 2005 | 140 | 2005 |
| Conflict and cooperation in ant societies J Heinze, B Hölldobler, C Peters Naturwissenschaften 81 (11), 489-497, 1994 | 135 | 1994 |
| Sociobiology of slave-making ants P D’Ettorre, J Heinze Acta ethologica 3, 67-82, 2001 | 134 | 2001 |
| Worker policing without genetic conflicts in a clonal ant A Hartmann, J Wantia, JA Torres, J Heinze Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100 (22), 12836-12840, 2003 | 130 | 2003 |
| Multilevel selection and social evolution of insect societies J Korb, J Heinze Naturwissenschaften 91, 291-304, 2004 | 129 | 2004 |
