2010s
Polistes instabilis Costa Rica
Publications
Hunt, J. H. and A. L. Toth. 2017. Wasps. Chapter 4, pp. 84-123 in D. R. Rubenstein & P. Abbot, eds. Comparative Social Evolution. Cambridge University Press.
Berens, A. J., J. H. Hunt and A. L. Toth. 2015. Nourishment level affects caste-related gene expression in Polistes wasps. BMC Genomics 16: 235
Judd, T. J., P. E. A. Teal, E. J. Hernandez, T. Choudhury and J. H. Hunt 2015. Quantitative differences in nourishment affect caste-related physiology and development in the paper wasp Polistes metricus. PLoS ONE 10(2): e0116199
Berens, A. J., J. H. Hunt, and A. L. Toth. 2015. Comparative transcriptomics of convergent evolution: Different genes but conserved pathways underlie caste phenotypes across lineages of social insects. Molecular Biology and Evolution 32: 690-703
Hunt, J. H. 2014. Review of The Spirit of the Hive by R. E. Page, Jr. Reports of the National Center for Science Education: 34.1. - 6.1-6.3
Hunt, J. H. and F.-J. Richard. 2013. Intracolony vibroacoustic communication in social insects. Insectes Sociaux 60: 403-417
Richard, F.-J. and J. H. Hunt. 2013. Intracolony chemical communication in social insects. Insectes Sociaux 60: 275-291
Group hunting by workers of two Neotropical swarm-founding paper wasps, Parachartergus apicalis and Agelaia sp. Insectes Sociaux 60: 369-372
Hunt, J. H. 2012. A conceptual model for the origin of worker behaviour and adaptation of eusociality. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 1-19.
Hunt, J. H., N. S. Mutti, H. Havukainen, M. T. Henshaw, and G. V. Amdam. 2011. Development of an RNA interference tool, characterization of its target, and an ecological test of caste differentiation in the eusocial wasp Polistes. PLoS ONE: 6(11): e26641.
Hunt, J. H., F. Wolschin, M. T. Henshaw, T. C. Newman, A. L. Toth, and G. V. Amdam. 2010. Differential gene expression and protein abundance evince ontogenetic bias toward castes in a primitively eusocial wasp. PLoS ONE 5(5): e10674.