Pubs

Wahlberg N, J Rota, MF Braby, NE Pierce and CW Wheat (2014). Revised systematics and higher classification of pierid butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) based on molecular data. Zoologica Scripta 43: 641–650 [doi: 10.1111/zsc.12075]

Rabeling C, TR Schultz, NE Pierce and M Bacci Jr (2014). A Social Parasite Evolved Reproductive Isolation from Its Fungus-Growing Ant Host in Sympatry. Current Biology 24: 2047-52 [doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.07.048]

Rabeling C, M Bollazzi, M Bacci Jr, RR Beasley, SL Lance, KL Jones and NE Pierce (2014). Development and characterization of twenty-two polymorphic microsatellite markers for the leafcutter ant, Acromyrmex lundii, utilizing Illumina sequencing. Conservation Genetics Resources 6: 319–322 [doi: 10.1007/s12686-013-0078-3]

Rabeling C, M Bollazzi, M Bacci Jr, RR Beasley, SL Lance, KL Jones and NE Pierce (2014). Development of twenty-one polymorphic microsatellite markers for the fungus-growing ant, Mycocepurus goeldii (Formicidae: Attini), using Illumina paired-end genomic sequencing. Conservation Genetics Resources 6: 739–741 [doi: 10.1007/s12686-014-0204-x]

Kocher SD, L Pellissier, C Veller, J Purcell, MA Nowak, M Chapuisat and NE Pierce (2014). Transitions in social complexity along elevational gradients reveal a combined impact of season length and development time on social evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281: 20140627 [doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0627]

Sanders JG, S Powell, DJC Kronauer, HL Vasconcelos, ME Frederickson and NE Pierce (2014). Stability and phylogenetic correlation in gut microbiota: lessons from ants and apes. Molecular Ecology 23(6): 1268-83 [doi: 10.1111/mec.12611]

Price SL, S Powell, DJC Kronauer, LAP Tran, NE Pierce and RK Wayne (2014). Renewed diversification is associated with new ecological opportunity in the Neotropical turtle ants. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27(2): 242-258 [doi: 10.1111/jeb.12300]

Kocher SD, C Li, W Yang, H Tan, SV Yi, X Yang, HE Hoekstra, G Zhang, NE Pierce and DW Yu (2013). The draft genome of a socially polymorphic halictid bee, Lasioglossum albipes. Genome Biology 14: R142 [doi: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-12-r142]

Groen SC, NK Whiteman, AK Bahrami, AM Wilczek, J Cui, JA Russell, A Cibrian-Jaramillo, IAE Butler, J Rana, GH Huang, J Bush, FM Ausubel and NE Pierce (2013). Pathogen-triggered ethylene signaling mediates systemic induced susceptibility to herbivory in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell 25: 4755-4766 [​doi: ​10.​1105/​tpc.​113.​113415]

Kronauer DJC, K Tsuji, NE Pierce and L Keller (2013). Non-nest mate discrimination and clonal colony structure in the parthenogenetic ant Cerapachys biroi. Behavioral Ecology 24: 617-622 [​doi: ​10.1093/beheco/ars227]

Talavera G, VA Lukhtanov, L Rieppel, NE Pierce and R Vila (2013). In the shadow of phylogenetic uncertainty: The recent diversification of Lysandra butterflies through chromosomal change. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69: 469–478 [doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.08.004]

Martins DJ, SC Collins, C Congdon and NE Pierce (2013). Association between the African lycaenid, Anthene usamba, and an obligate acacia ant, Crematogaster mimosae. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 109(2): 302–312 [doi: 10.1111/bij.12037]

McFall-Ngai M, M Hadfield, T Bosch, H Carey, T Domazet-Loso, A Douglas, N Dubilier, G Eberl, T Fukami, S Gilbert, U Hentschel, N King, S Kjelleberg, AH Knoll, N Kremer, S Mazmanian, J Metcalf, K Nealson, NE Pierce, J Rawls, A Reid, E Ruby, M Rumpho, J Sanders, D Tautz and J Wernegreen (2013). Animals in a Bacterial World: An Imperative for the Life Sciences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110(9): 3229-3236 [doi: 10.1073/pnas.1218525110]

Basset Y, R Eastwood, L Sam, DJ Lohman, V Novotny, T Treuer, SE Miller, GD Weiblen, NE Pierce, S Bunyavejchewin, W Sakchoowong, P Kongnoo and MA Osorio-Arenas (2012). Cross-continental comparisons of butterfly assemblages in tropical rainforests: implications for biological monitoring. Insect Conservation and Diversity [doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2012.00205.x]

Kronauer DJC, NE Pierce and L Keller (2012). Asexual reproduction in introduced and native populations of the ant Cerapachys biroi. Molecular Ecology 21: 5221-5235 [doi: 10.1111/mec.12041]

Frederickson ME, A Ravenscraft, GA Miller, LM Arcila Hernandez, G Booth, NE Pierce (2012). The direct and ecological costs of an ant-plant symbiosis. The American Naturalist 179: 768-778 [doi: 10.1086/665654]

Russell JA, CF Funaro, YM Giraldo, B Goldman-Huertas, D Suh, DJC Kronauer, CS Moreau and NE Pierce (2012). A veritable menagerie of heritable bacteria from ants, butterflies, and beyond: broad molecular surveys and a systematic review. PLoS ONE 7(12): e51027 [doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051027]

Talavera G, VA Lukhtanov, NE Pierce and R Vila (2012). Establishing criteria for higher-level classification using molecular data: the systematics of Polyommatus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Cladistics 2012: 1-27 [doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00421.x]

Whiteman NK, AD Gloss, TB Sackton, SC Groen, PT Humphrey, RT Lapoint, IE Sønderby, BA Halkier, C Kocks, FM Ausubel and NE Pierce (2012). Genes involved in the evolution of herbivory by a leaf-mining, drosophilid fly. Genome Biology and Evolution 4: 900-916 [doi: 10.1093/gbe/evs063]

Pierce NE and AJ Berry. The herbivore's dilemma: never enough nitrogen. In: Losos J (ed) In the light of evolution: essays from the laboratory and field. Roberts & Co., Publ. pp. 121-134

Archetti M, I Scheuring, M Hoffman, ME Frederickson, NE Pierce and DW Yu (2011). Economic game theory for mutualism and cooperation. Ecology Letters 14: 1300-1312 [doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01697.x]

Archetti M, F Ubeda, D Fudenberg, J Green, NE Pierce and DW Yu (2011). Let the Right One In: A Microeconomic Approach to Partner Choice in Mutualisms. The American Naturalist 177(1): 75-85 [doi: 10.1086/657622]

Basset Y, R Eastwood, L Sam, DJ Lohman, V Novotny, T Treuer, SE Miller, GD Weiblen, NE Pierce, S Bunyavejchewin, W Sakchoowong, P Kongnoo, MA Osorio-Arenas (2011). Comparison of rainforest butterfly assemblages across three biogeographical regions using standardized protocols. The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 44: 17-28

Funaro CF, DJC Kronauer, CS Moreau, B Goldman-Huertas, NE Pierce and JA Russell (2011). Army Ants Harbor a Host-Specific Clade of Entomoplasmatales Bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77: 346-350 [doi: 10.1128/AEM.01896-10]

Kronauer DJC, S O'Donnell, JJ Boomsma and NE Pierce (2011). Strict monandry in the ponerine army ant genus Simopelta suggests that colony size and complexity drive mating system evolution in social insects. Molecular Ecology 20: 420-428 [doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04945.x]

Kronauer DJC and NE Pierce (2011). Myrmecophiles. Current Biology 21: R208-R209

Kronauer DJC, JJ Boomsma and NE Pierce (2011). Nine novel microsatellite markers for the army ant Simopelta pergandei (subfamily Ponerinae). Conservation Genetics Resources 3: 61-63

Ramirez SR, T Eltz, MK Fujiwara, G Gerlach, B Goldman-Huertas, ND Tsutsui and NE Pierce (2011). Asynchronous diversification in a specialized plant-pollinator mutualism. Science 333: 1742-1746

Ugelvig LV, R Vila, NE Pierce, DR Nash (2011). A phylogenetic revision of the Glaucopsyche section (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), with special focus on the Phengaris-Maculinea clade. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61: 237-243 [doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.05.016]

Vila R, CD Bell, R Macniven, B Goldman-Huertas, RH Ree, CR Marshall, Z Bálint, K Johnson, D Benyamini and NE Pierce (2011). Phylogeny and palaeoecology of Polyommatus blue butterflies show Beringia was a climate-regulated gateway to the New World. Proceedings of the Royal Society B published online 26 January 2011 [doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2213]

Whiteman NK, SC Groen, D Chevasco, A Bear, N Beckwith, T R Gregory, C Denoux, N Mammarella, F Ausubel and NE Pierce (2011). Mining the plant–herbivore interface with a leafmining Drosophila of Arabidopsis. Molecular Ecology 20: 995-1014 [doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04901.x]

Ramirez SR, JC Nieh, TB Quental, DW Roubik, VL Imperatriz-Fonseca and NE Pierce (2010). A molecular phylogeny of the stingless bee genus Melipona (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56: 519-525 [doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.04.026]

Ramirez SR, DW Roubik, C Skov and NE Pierce (2010). Phylogeny, diversification patterns and historical biogeography of euglossine orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 100: 552-572

Sodhi NS, TM Lee, CH Sekercioglu, EL Webb, DM Prawiradilaga, DJ Lohman, NE Pierce, AC Diesmos, M Rao and PR Ehrlich (2010). Local people value environmental services provided by forested parks. Biodiversity Conservation 19: 1175-1188 [doi: 10.1007/s10531-009-9745-9]

Vila R, VA Lukhtanov, G Talavera, F Gil-T and NE Pierce (2010). How common are dot-like distributions? Taxonomical oversplitting in western European Agrodiaetus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) revealed by chromosomal and molecular markers. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 101: 130-154

Weyl EG, ME Frederickson, DW Yu and NE Pierce (2010). Economic contract theory tests models of mutualism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(36): 15712-15716 [doi: 10.1073/pnas.1005294107]

See also: Weyl EG, ME Frederickson, DW Yu and NE Pierce (2011). Reply to Kiers et al.: Economic and biological clarity in the theory of mutualism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(3)

Canfield MR, NE Pierce (2010). Facultative Mimicry? The Evolutionary Significance of Seasonal Forms in Several Indo-Australian Butterflies in the Family Pieridae. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 20(1): 1-7

Canfield MR, S Chang and NE Pierce (2009). The double cloak of invisibility: Phenotypic plasticity and larval decoration in a geometrid moth, Synchlora frondaria, across three diet treatments. Ecological Entomology 34: 412-414 [doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2009.01089.x]

Russell JA, B Goldman-Huertas, CS Moreau, L Baldo, JK Stahlut, JH Werren and NE Pierce (2009). Specialization and geographic isolation among Wolbachia symbionts from ants and lycaenid butterflies. Evolution 63: 624-640 [doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00579.x]

Russell JA, CS Moreau, B Goldman-Huertas, M Fujiwara, DJ Lohman and NE Pierce (2009). Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(50): 21236-21241 [doi: 10.1073/pnas.0907926106]

Canfield MR, E Greene, CS Moreau, N Chen and NE Pierce (2008). Exploring phenotypic plasticity and biogeography in emerald moths: A phylogeny of the genus Nemoria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49: 477-487 [doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.07.003]

Hughes DP, NE Pierce and JJ Boomsma (2008). Social insect symbionts: evolution in homeostatic fortresses. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 672-677 [doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2008.07.011]

Lohman DJ, P Djunijanti, NE Pierce and R Meier (2008). Phylogeography and genetic diversity of a widespread Old World butterfly, Lampides boeticus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). BMC Evolutionary Biology 8: 301- 305 [doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-301]

Mathew J, MA Travassos, M Canfield, D Murawski, RL Kitching and NE Pierce (2008). The singing reaper: diet, morphology and vibrational signaling in the Nearctic species Feniseca tarquinius. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 18: 24-29

Travassos MA, PJ Devries and NE Pierce (2008). A novel organ and mechanism for larval sound production in butterfly caterpillars: Eurybia elvina (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 18: 20-23

Whiteman NK and NE Pierce (2008). Delicious poison: genetics of Drosophila host plant preference. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 473-478 [doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2008.05.010]

Braby MF and NE Pierce (2007). Systematics, biogeography and diversification of the Indo-Australian genus Delias Hübner (Lepidoptera: Pieridae): phylogenetic evidence supports an ‘out-of-Australia’ origin. Systematic Entomology 32: 2-25 [doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2006.00349.x]

Braby MF, NE Pierce and R Vila (2007). Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the subtribe Aporiina, with particular reference to Delias Hübner (Lepidoptera: Pieridae): implications for the origin of Australian butterflies? Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 90: 413-440

Kandul NP, VA Lukhtanov and NE Pierce (2007). Karyotypic diversity and speciation in Agrodiaetus butterflies. Evolution 61: 546-558 [doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00046.x]

Quek S-P, SJ Davies, PS Ashton, T Itino and NE Pierce (2007). The geography of diversification in mutualistic ants: a gene's-eye view into the Neogene history of Sundaland rain forests. Molecular Ecology 16: 2045-2062 [doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03294.x]

Quental TB, MM Patten and NE Pierce (2007). Host plant specialization driven by sexual selection. American Naturalist 169: 830–836

Ramirez SR, B Gravendeel, RB Singer, CR Marshall and NE Pierce (2007). Dating the origin of the Orchidaceae from a fossil orchid with its pollinator. Nature 448:1042-1045 [doi: 10.1038/nature06039]

Braby MF, R Vila and NE Pierce (2006). Molecular phylogeny and systematics of the Pieridae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea): higher classification and biogeography. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society 147: 239-275

Eastwood R, NE Pierce, RL Kitching and JM Hughes (2006). Do ants enhance diversification in lycaenid butterflies? Phylogeographic evidence from a model myrmecophile, Jalmenus evagoras. Evolution 60: 315-327

Lohman DJ, Q Liao and NE Pierce (2006). Convergence of chemical mimicry in a guild of aphid predators. Ecological Entomology 31: 41-51

Moreau CS, CD Bell, R Vila, SB Archibald and NE Pierce (2006). Phylogeny of the Ants: Diversification in the Age of Angiosperms, Science 312(5770): 101-104 [doi: 10.1126/science.1124891]

Wahlberg N, MF Braby, AVZ Brower, R de Jong, M Lee, S Nylin, NE Pierce, FAH Sperling, R Vila, AD Warren and E Zakharov (2005). Synergistic effects of combining morphological and molecular data in resolving the phylogeny of butterflies and skippers. Proc. R. Soc. Series B. 272: 1577-1586 [doi: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3124]

Cui J, AK Bahrami, EG Pringle, G Hernandez-Guzman, CL Bender, NE Pierce and FM Ausubel (2005). Pseudomonas syringae manipulates systemic plant defence against pathogens and herbivores. PNAS 102: 1791-1796 [doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409450102] [highlighted on Faculty of 1000; see also Nature Reviews Microbiology 3: 192]

Lukhtanov VA, NP Kandul, JB Plotkin, AV Dantchenko, D Haig and NE Pierce (2005). Reinforcement of pre-zygotic isolation and karyotype evolution in Agrodiaetus butterflies. Nature 436: 385-389 [doi: 10.1038/nature03704] [cited by Science in their yearly round-up as one of the 10 breakthrough papers in evolutionary biology published in 2005; see Science 310: 1878-1879]

Als TD, R Vila, NP Kandul, DR Nash, S-H Yen, Y-F Hsu, AA Mignault, JJ Boomsma and NE Pierce (2004). The evolution of alternative parasitic life histories in Large Blue butterflies. Nature 432: 386-390 [doi: 10.1038/nature03020]

Kandul NP, JWS Coleman, VA Lukhtanov, DA Dantchenko, C Sekercioglu, D Haig and NE Pierce (2004). Phylogeny of Agrodiaetus Hübner 1822 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) inferred from mtDNA Sequences of COI and COII, and Nuclear Sequences of EF1-α: Karyotype diversification and species radiation. Systematic Biology 53(2): 278-298

Megens H-J, CHM van Moorsel, WH Piel, NE Pierce and R de Jong (2004). Tempo of speciation in a butterfly genus from the Southeast Asian tropics, inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31: 1181-1196

Megens H-J, WJ van Nes, CHM van Moorsel, NE Pierce and R de Jong (2004). Molecular phylogeny of the Oriental butterfly genus Arhopala (Lycaenidae, Theclinae) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Systematic Entomology 29: 115-131

Quek S-P, SJ Davies, T Itino and NE Pierce (2004). Codiversification in an ant-plant mutualism: stem texture and the evolution of host use in Crematogaster (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) inhabitants of Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae). Evolution 58: 554-570

Campbell DL and NE Pierce (2003). Phylogenetic relationships of the Riodinidae: Implications for the evolution of ant association. In: Butterflies as Model Systems, Boggs, C, P Ehrlich and WB Watt (eds.). Chicago University Press, pp. 395-408

Cui J, G Jander, LR Racki, PD Kim, NE Pierce and FM Ausubel (2002). Signals involved in Arabidopsis resistance to Trichoplusia ni caterpillars induced by virulent and avirulent strains of the phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae. Plant Physiology 129: 551-564

Fraser AM, T Tregenza, N Wedell, MA Elgar and NE Pierce (2002). Oviposition tests of ant preference in a myrmecophilous butterfly. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 15: 861-870

Pierce NE, MF Braby, A Heath, DJ Lohman, J Mathew, DB Rand and MA Travassos (2002). The ecology and evolution of ant association in the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera). Annual Review of Entomology 47: 733-771

Fraser AM, AH Axén and NE Pierce (2001). Assessing the quality of different ant species as partners of a myrmecophilous butterfly. Oecologia 129: 452-460

Hsu R, AD Briscoe, BSW Chang and NE Pierce (2001). Molecular evolution of a long wavelength-sensitive opsin in mimetic Heliconius butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 72: 435-449

Jander G, J Cui, E Nhan, NE Pierce and FM Ausubel (2001). The TASTY locus on chromosome 1 of Arabidopsis thaliana affects feeding of the insect herbivore, Trichoplusia ni. Plant Physiology 126: 890-898

Monteiro A and NE Pierce (2001). Phylogeny of Bicyclus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) inferred from COI, COII and EF-1alpha gene sequences. Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution 18: 264 - 281

Pierce NE (2001). Peeling the onion: symbioses between ants and blue butterflies. In: Dugatkin, LA (ed.) Model systems in behavioral ecology, Princeton University Press, Princeton, pp. 41-56

Pratt SC and NE Pierce (2001). The cavity-dwelling ant Leptothorax curvispinosus uses nest geometry to discriminate between potential homes. Animal Behaviour 62: 281-287

Yu DW, HB Wilson and NE Pierce (2001). Colonization trade-offs and the interaction with environmental heterogeneity. Ecology 82: 1761-1771

Campbell DL, AVZ Brower and NE Pierce (2000). Molecular evolution of the Wingless gene and its implications for the phylogenetic placement of the butterfly family Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Molecular Biology and Evolution 17: 684-696

Craig CL, C Riekel, ME Herberstein, RS Weber, D Kaplan and NE Pierce (2000). Evidence for diet effects on the composition of silk proteins produced by spiders. Molecular Biology and Evolution 17: 1904-1913

Haig D, NE Pierce and EO Wilson (2000). William Donald Hamilton (1936 - 2000). Science 287: 2438

Hughes L, BSW Chang, D Wagner and NE Pierce (2000). Effects of mating history on ejaculate size, fecundity, longevity, and copulation duration in the ant-tended lycaenid butterfly, Jalmenus evagoras. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 47: 119-128

Moran N, NE Pierce and J Seger (2000). W.D. Hamilton, 1936-2000. Nature Medicine 6: 367

Rand DB, A Heath, T Suderman and NE Pierce (2000). Phylogeny and life history evolution of the genus Chrysoritis within the Aphnaeini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I sequences. Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution 17: 85-96

Travassos MA and NE Pierce (2000). Acoustics, context and function of vibrational signalling in a lycaenid butterfly-ant mutualism. Animal Behaviour 60: 13-26

Craig CL, M Hsu, D Kaplan and NE Pierce (1999). A comparison of the composition of silk proteins produced by spiders and insects. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 7: 1904-1913

Kitching R, E Sheermeyer, R Jones and NE Pierce (eds.) (1999). The Biology of Australian Butterflies (Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Vol. 6); CSIRO Press, Sydney, 395 pages

Pierce NE and DR Nash (1999). The Imperial Blue, Jalmenus evagoras (Lycaenidae), In: Kitching R, E Sheermeyer, R Jones and NE Pierce (eds.). The Biology of Australian Butterflies (Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Vol. 6). CSIRO Press, Sydney, pp. 277-316

Axen A and NE Pierce (1998). Aggregation as a cost reducing strategy for lycaenid larvae. Behavioral Ecology 9: 109-115

Townson SM, BSW Chang, E Salcedo, LV Chadwell, NE Pierce and SG Britt (1998). Honeybee blue- and ultraviolet-sensitive opsins: cloning, heterologous expression in Drosophila, and physiological characterization. Journal of Neuroscience 18: 2412-2422

Yu DW and NE Pierce (1998). A castration parasite in a putative ant-plant mutualism. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 265: 375-382

Chang BSW, D Ayers, WC Smith and NE Pierce (1996). Cloning of the gene encoding honeybee long-wavelength rhodopsin: a new class of insect visual pigments. Gene 173: 215-219

Costa JT, JH McDonald and NE Pierce (1996). The effect of ant association on the population genetics of the Australian butterfly Jalmenus evagoras (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 58: 287-306

Costa JT and NE Pierce (1996). Social evolution in the Lepidoptera: ecological context and communication in larval societies. In: Crespi, BJ and JC Choe (eds.) Social competition and cooperation in insects and arachnids, Volume II: Evolution of sociality pp. 407-442

Pierce NE (1996). A scientist of great humanity. Insectarium 33: 3 (in Japanese)

Carlin NF, DS Gladstein, AJ Berry and NE Pierce (1995). Absence of kin discrimination in a soldier-producing aphid, Ceratovacuna japonica (Hemiptera: Pemphigidae; Cerataphidini). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 102: 287-298

Evans JD and NE Pierce (1995). Effects of diet quality and queen number on growth in leptothoracine ant colonies (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 103: 91-99

Fiedler K, P Seufert, NE Pierce, JG Pearson and T Baumgarten (1995). Exploitation of lycaenid-ant mutalisms by braconid parasitoids. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 31: 153-168

Pierce NE (1995). Predatory and parasitic Lepidoptera: carnivores living on plants. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 49: 412-453

Kane M and NE Pierce (1994). Diversity within diversity: molecular approaches to studying microbial interactions with insects. In: Schierwater, B, B Streit, GP Wagner and R DeSalle (eds.) Molecular methods in ecology and evolution, Birkhauser Verlag, pp. 509-524

Baylis M and NE Pierce (1993). The effects of ant mutualism on the foraging and diet of lycaenid caterpillars. In: Stamp, NE and TM Casey (eds.) Caterpillars: Ecological and Evolutionary Constraints on Foraging. Chapman and Hall, New York, pp. 404-421

Taylor MFJ, SW McKechnie, NE Pierce and M Kreitman (1993). The lepidopteran mitochondrial control region: structure and evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution 10: 1259-1272

Baylis M and NE Pierce (1992). Lack of compensation by final instar larvae of the myrmecophilous lycaenid butterfly, Jalmenus evagoras for the loss of nutrients to ants. Physiological Entomology 17: 107-114

Baylis M and NE Pierce (1991). The effect of host plant quality on the survival of larvae and oviposition behaviour of adults of an ant-tended lycaenid butterfly, Jalmenus evagoras. Ecological Entomology 16: 1-9

Pierce NE, DR Nash, M Baylis and ER Carper (1991). Variation in the attractiveness of lycaenid butterfly larvae to ants. In: Cutler, D and C Huxley (eds.) Ant-plant interactions, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 131-143

Hill CJ and NE Pierce (1989). The effect of adult diet on the biology of butterflies. 1. The common imperial blue, Jalmenus evagoras. Oecologia (Berl) 81: 249-257

Pierce NE (1989). Butterfly-ant mutualisms. In: Grubb, PJ and J Whittaker (eds.) Towards a more exact ecology, Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 299-324

Elgar MA and NE Pierce (1988). Mating success and fecundity in an ant-tended lycaenid butterfly. In: Clutton-Brock, TH (ed.) Reproductive success: studies of selection and adaptation in contrasting breeding systems. Chicago University Press, Chicago, pp. 59-75

Smiley JT, PR Atsatt and NE Pierce (1988). Local distribution of the lycaenid butterfly, Jalmenus evagoras, in response to host ants and plants. Oecologia (Berl) 76: 416-422

May RM and NE Pierce (1987). No room for loners. Review of Animal Societies: Theories and Facts, Ito Y, JL Brown and J Kikkawa (eds.), Japan Scientific Societies Press. Nature 330: 32

Pierce NE (1987). The evolution and biogeography of associations between lycaenid butterflies and ants. In: Harvey, PH and L Partridge (eds.) Oxford Surveys in Evol Biol. Vol. IV, pp. 89-116

Pierce NE (1987). The remarkable life histories of lycaenid butterflies. Insectarium 24: 4-11 (in Japanese)

Pierce NE, RL Kitching, RC Buckley, MFJ Taylor and K Benbow (1987). The costs and benefits of cooperation between the Australian lycaenid butterfly, Jalmenus evagoras and its attendant ants. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 21: 237-248

Pierce NE and S Easteal (1986). The selective advantage of attendant ants for the larvae of a lycaenid butterfly, Glaucopsyche lygdamus. Journal of Animal Ecology 55: 451-462

Pierce NE and WR Young (1986). Lycaenid butterflies and ants: two-species stable equilibria in mutualistic, commensal, and parasitic interactions. American Naturalist 128: 216-227

Pierce NE (1985). Lycaenid butterflies and ants: selection for nitrogen fixing and other protein rich food plants. American Naturalist. 125: 888-895

Pierce NE and MA Elgar (1985). The influence of ants on host plant selection by Jalmenus evagoras, a myrmecophilous lycaenid butterfly. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 16: 209-222

Pierce NE (1984). Amplified species diversity: a case study of an Australian lycaenid butterfly and its attendant ants. In: Vane Wright, RI and PR Ackery (eds.) Biology of butterflies. XI Symp R Entomol Soc (Lond). Academic Press, London, pp. 197-200

Pierce NE and PS Mead (1981). Parasitoids as selective agents in the symbiosis between lycaenid butterfly caterpillars and ants. Science 211: 1185-1187