Evolution of complex and adaptive behaviors in insects
(selected publications)
Branham, M. A., and J. W. Wenzel. 2003. The origin of photic behavior and the evolution of sexual communication in fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Cladistics 19: 1-22.
Bucheli, S., J.-F. Landry, and J. Wenzel. 2002. Larval case architecture and implications of host-plant associations for North American Coleophora (Lepidoptera; Coleophoridae). Cladistics 18: 71-93.
Blackledge, T. A., and J. W. Wenzel. 2001. Silk mediated defense by an orb web spider against predatory mud-dauber wasps. Behaviour 138: 155-171.
Blackledge, T. A., and J. W. Wenzel. 2001. State-determinate foraging decisions and web architecture in the spider Dictyna volucripes (Araneae Dictynidae). Ethology Ecology and Evolution 13: 105-113.
Pickett, K. M., A. McHenry, and J. W. Wenzel. 2000. Nestmate recognition in the absence of a pheromone. Insectes Sociaux 47: 212-219.
Blackledge, T. A., and J. W. Wenzel. 2000. The evolution of cryptic spider silk: A behavioral test. Behavioral Ecology 11: 142-145.
Miller, J. S., and J. W. Wenzel. 1995. Ecological characters and phylogeny. Annual Review of Entomology 40: 389-415.
Wenzel, J. W., J. M. Carpenter, P. Eggleton, and R. Vane-Wright. 1994. Comparing methods: Adaptive traits and tests of adaptation, pp. 79-101, Linnean Society Symposium Series; Phylogenetics and ecology.