David C. Queller - Selected Publications

Selected Publications

• Queller, DC. 2008. The social side of wild yeast. Nature 465: 589-590
• Ostrowski, EA, Katoh, M, Shaulsky, G, Queller, DC, and Strassmann, JE. 2008. Kin Discrimination Increases with Genetic Distance in a Social Amoeba. PLoS Biology 6 (11):e287
• Santorelli, LA, Thompson, CRL, Villegas, E, Svetz, J, Dinh, C, Parikh, A, Sucgang, R, Kuspa, A, Strassmann, JE, Queller, DC and Shaulsky, G. 2008. Facultative cheater mutants reveal the genetic complexity of cooperation in social amoebae. Nature 451:1107-1110.
• McConnell,R., Middlemist, S., Scala, C., Strassmann, J.E. and Queller, D.C. 2007. An unusually low microsatellite mutation rate in Dictyostelium discoideum, an organism with unusually abundant microsatellites. Genetics. 177:1499-1507
• Gilbert, OM, Foster, K., Mehdiabadi, NJ, Strassmann, JE, and Queller, DC. 2007. High relatedness maintains multicellular cooperation in a social amoeba by controlling cheater mutants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 104:8913-8917.
• Strassmann, JE, and Queller, DC. 2007. Insect societies as divided organisms: The complexities of purpose and cross-purpose. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 104:8619-8626.
• Kuzdzal-Fick, J.J., Foster, K. R.; Queller, D. C., and Strassmann, J. 2007. Exploiting new terrain: an advantage to sociality in the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. Behavioral Ecology. 18: 433-437.
• Mehdiabadi, NJ, Jack, CN, Farnham, TT, Platt, TG, Kalla, SE, Shaulsky, G, Queller, DC, and Strassmann, JE. 2006. Kin preference in a social microbe. Nature. 442: 881-882
• Queller, D.C. & Strassmann, J. E., 2002. The many selves of social insects. Science 296:311-313
• Queller, D. C., Zacchi, F., Cervo, R., Turillazzi, S., Henshaw, M., Santorelli, L., Strassmann, J. E. 2000. Unrelated helpers in a social insect. Nature 405:784-787.
• Queller, D. C. and Strassmann, J. E. 1998. Kin selection and social insects. BioScience, 48: 165-175.
• Hastings, M. D., Queller, D. C., Eischen, F. and Strassmann, J. E. 1998. Kin selection, relatedness and worker control of reproduction in a large-colony epiponine wasp, Brachygastra mellifica. Behavioral Ecology, 9:573-581.
• Peters, J. M., Queller D. C., Imperatriz-Fonseca, V. L., Roubik, D. W., Strassmann, J. E. 1999. Mate number, kin selection and social conflicts in stingless bees and honey bees. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Series B 266:379-384.
• Queller, D.C. 1997. Why do females care more than males? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 264: 1555-1557.
• Queller, D. C., J. E. Strassmann, C. R. Hughes, C. R. Solís, D. Moralez DeLoach, 1993. A selfish strategy of social insect workers that promotes social cohesion. Nature 365:639-641.
• Queller, D.C., Peters, J.M., Solís, C.R. & Strassmann, J.E. 1997. Control of reproduction in social insect colonies: individual and collective relatedness preferences in the paper wasp, Polistes annularis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 40:3-16.
• Queller, D.C. 1994. Male-female conflict and parent-offspring conflict. American Naturalist 144:S84-S99. Aug
• Queller, D.C. 1994. Extended parental care and the origin of eusociality. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 256:105-111.
• Queller, D.C. 1996. The measurement and meaning of inclusive fitness. Animal Behaviour 51: 229-232.
• Goodnight, K.F. and Queller, D. C. 1999. Computer software for performing likelihood tests of pedigree relationship using genetic markers Molecular Ecology 8:1231-1234.
• Queller, D.C. 1996. The origin and maintenance of eusociality: the advantage of extended parental care, pp. 218–234 in: S. Turillazzi and M. J. West-Eberhard (eds), Natural History and Evolution of Paper Wasps, Oxford University Press.