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D-Index
40
Citations
6603
World Ranking
6092
National Ranking
2069

Overview

Elizabeth A. Tibbetts is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broad areas, their work focuses on subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Social Psychology, Insect Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main research topics covered by their publications include Plant and Animal Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Insect and Pesticide Research, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics.

Elizabeth A. Tibbetts has contributed numerous papers to well-known scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets for their work include Animal Behaviour, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Current Biology, and Ecology.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Elizabeth A. Tibbetts include:

  • The establishment and maintenance of dominance hierarchies (2022), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Wasps Use Social Eavesdropping to Learn about Individual Rivals (2020), published in Current Biology
  • Pollinator community species richness dilutes prevalence of multiple viruses within multiple host species (2021), published in Ecology
  • Individual recognition is associated with holistic face processing in Polistes paper wasps in a species-specific way (2021), published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Paper wasps form abstract concept of 'same and different' (2022), published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Their frequent co-authors include Juanita Pardo-Sanchez, Chloe Weise, Emily C. Laub, Michelle L. Fearon, and Christian Cely Ortiz.

Best Publications

  • The biology of color

    Innes C. Cuthill;William L. Allen;Kevin Arbuckle;Barbara Caspers

  • Individual recognition: it is good to be different

    Elizabeth A. Tibbetts;James Dale

  • Visual signals of individual identity in the wasp Polistes fuscatus

    Elizabeth A. Tibbetts

  • A socially enforced signal of quality in a paper wasp

    Elizabeth A. Tibbetts;James Dale

  • Specialized Face Learning Is Associated with Individual Recognition in Paper Wasps

    Michael J. Sheehan;Elizabeth A. Tibbetts

  • The establishment and maintenance of dominance hierarchies

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  • Molecular systematics of primary reptilian lineages and the tuatara mitochondrial genome.

    Joshua S. Rest;Jennifer C. Ast;Christopher C. Austin;Christopher C. Austin;Peter J. Waddell

  • Polistes paper wasps: a model genus for the study of social dominance hierarchies

    J. M. Jandt;E. A. Tibbetts;A. L. Toth

  • Visual signals of status and rival assessment in Polistes dominulus paper wasps

    Elizabeth A Tibbetts;Rebecca Lindsay

  • Complex social behaviour can select for variability in visual features: a case study in Polistes wasps.

    Elizabeth A. Tibbetts

  • Benefits of foundress associations in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus: increased productivity and survival, but no assurance of fitness returns

    Elizabeth A. Tibbetts;Hudson Kern Reeve

  • Robust long-term social memories in a paper wasp.

    Michael J. Sheehan;Elizabeth A. Tibbetts

  • Social punishment of dishonest signalers caused by mismatch between signal and behavior.

    Elizabeth A. Tibbetts;Amanda Izzo

  • The effect of juvenile hormone on temporal polyethism in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus

    J. R. Shorter;E. A. Tibbetts

  • Rearing conditions influence quality signals but not individual identity signals in Polistes wasps

    Elizabeth A. Tibbetts;Tracy R. Curtis

  • EVOLUTION OF IDENTITY SIGNALS: FREQUENCY‐DEPENDENT BENEFITS OF DISTINCTIVE PHENOTYPES USED FOR INDIVIDUAL RECOGNITION

    Michael J. Sheehan;Elizabeth A. Tibbetts

  • Selection for individual recognition and the evolution of polymorphic identity signals in Polistes paper wasps

    M. J. Sheehan;E. A. Tibbetts

  • Cuticular hydrocarbons correlate with fertility, not dominance, in a paper wasp, Polistes dominulus

    Amanda Izzo;Michael Wells;Zachary Huang;Elizabeth Tibbetts

  • The Challenge Hypothesis in an Insect: Juvenile Hormone Increases during Reproductive Conflict following Queen Loss in Polistes Wasps

    Elizabeth A. Tibbetts;Zachary Y. Huang

  • Co-evolution of plumage characteristics and winter sociality in New and Old World sparrows

    E. A. Tibbetts;R. J. Safran

  • Different axes of environmental variation explain the presence vs. extent of cooperative nest founding associations in Polistes paper wasps

    Michael J Sheehan;Michael J Sheehan;Michael J Sheehan;Carlos A Botero;Carlos A Botero;Tory A Hendry;Tory A Hendry;Brian E Sedio;Brian E Sedio

  • Endocrine mediated phenotypic plasticity: condition-dependent effects of juvenile hormone on dominance and fertility of wasp queens.

    Elizabeth A. Tibbetts;Amanda S. Izzo

  • How do fighting ability and nest value influence usurpation contests in Polistes wasps

    Elizabeth A. Tibbetts;John R. Shorter;John R. Shorter

  • The condition dependence and heritability of signaling and nonsignaling color traits in paper wasps

    Elizabeth A. Tibbetts

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan N. Pruitt
Jonathan N. Pruitt McMaster University
Amy L. Toth
Amy L. Toth Iowa State University
Hudson K. Reeve
Hudson K. Reeve Cornell University
Mark E. Hauber
Mark E. Hauber Queens College, CUNY
Adrian G. Dyer
Adrian G. Dyer RMIT University
David P. Mindell
David P. Mindell University of California, San Francisco
Daniel Osorio
Daniel Osorio University of Sussex
Richard O. Prum
Richard O. Prum Yale University
Nina G. Jablonski
Nina G. Jablonski Pennsylvania State University
Stephen Pruett-Jones
Stephen Pruett-Jones University of Chicago

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