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Falko P. Drijfhout

Falko P. Drijfhout

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Ecology and Evolution

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33
Citations
4183
World Ranking
7889
National Ranking
777

Overview

Falko P. Drijfhout is affiliated with Keele University in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily within the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work encompasses several subfields, including Insect Science, Ecology, Animal Science and Zoology, Plant Science, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research topics cover a diverse range of areas such as Insect and Pesticide Research, Forensic Entomology and Diptera Studies, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Insect Behavior and Control Techniques, Plant and Animal Studies, Malaria Research and Control, and Animal Nutrition and Physiology.

Recent scientific publications authored or co-authored by Falko P. Drijfhout include:

  • Chronic Atmospheric Reactive Nitrogen Deposition Suppresses Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Peatlands (2021), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • Cuticular hydrocarbons for identifying Sarcophagidae (Diptera) (2021), published in Scientific Reports
  • Cuticular hydrocarbons for the identification and geographic assignment of empty puparia of forensically important flies (2022), published in International Journal of Legal Medicine
  • The evolution of sexually dimorphic cuticular hydrocarbons in blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) (2020), published in Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Cuticular hydrocarbons as a tool for determining the age of Chrysomya rufifacies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larvae (2020), published in Journal of Forensic Sciences

Falko P. Drijfhout frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Hannah E. Moore, Wen-Wu Li, V. Pirgozliev, Stephen Charles Mansbridge, and S.P. Rose. These frequent co-authors have contributed to multiple joint publications across topics related to forensic entomology and insect science.

Their work is often published in the following journals:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Forensic Sciences
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • International Journal of Legal Medicine
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Best Publications

  • Host Specific Social Parasites ( Psithyrus ) Indicate Chemical Recognition System in Bumblebees

    Stephen J. Martin;Jonathan M. Carruthers;Paul H. Williams;Falko P. Drijfhout

  • A review of ant cuticular hydrocarbons.

    Stephen Martin;Falko Drijfhout

  • Chemical basis of nest-mate discrimination in the ant Formica exsecta

    Stephen J Martin;Emma Vitikainen;Heikki Helanterä;Falko P Drijfhout

  • The evolution of invasiveness in garden ants.

    Sylvia Cremer;Sylvia Cremer;Line V. Ugelvig;Line V. Ugelvig;Falko P. Drijfhout;Birgit C. Schlick-Steiner

  • Evolution of species-specific cuticular hydrocarbon patterns in Formica ants

    Stephen J. Martin;Heikki Helanterä;Falko P. Drijfhout

  • The introduction history of invasive garden ants in Europe: integrating genetic, chemical and behavioural approaches.

    Line V Ugelvig;Line V Ugelvig;Falko P Drijfhout;Daniel J C Kronauer;Jacobus J Boomsma

  • How the ladybird got its spots : effects of resource limitation on the honesty of aposematic signals

    Jonathan D. Blount;Hannah M. Rowland;Falko P. Drijfhout;John A. Endler

  • Nestmate and Task Cues are Influenced and Encoded Differently within Ant Cuticular Hydrocarbon Profiles

    Stephen J. Martin;Falko P. Drijfhout

  • Task Group Differences in Cuticular Lipids in the Honey Bee Apis mellifera

    Ricarda Kather;Falko P. Drijfhout;Stephen J. Martin

  • Colony-specific hydrocarbons identify nest mates in two species of Formica ant.

    Stephen J. Martin;Heikki Helanterä;Falko P. Drijfhout

  • A High Throughput Ambient Mass Spectrometric Approach to Species Identification and Classification from Chemical Fingerprint Signatures

    Rabi A. Musah;Edgard O. Espinoza;Robert B. Cody;Ashton D. Lesiak

  • How Reliable is the Analysis of Complex Cuticular Hydrocarbon Profiles by Multivariate Statistical Methods

    Stephen J. Martin;Falko P. Drijfhout

  • Is parasite pressure a driver of chemical cue diversity in ants

    Stephen J. Martin;Heikki Helanterä;Falko P. Drijfhout

  • Is the social parasite Vespa dybowskii using chemical transparency to get her eggs accepted

    Stephen J. Martin;Jun-ichi Takahashi;Masato Ono;Falko P. Drijfhout

  • A Male-Predominant Cuticular Hydrocarbon, 7-Methyltricosane, is used as a Contact Pheromone in the Western Flower Thrips Frankliniella occidentalis

    Oladele A. Olaniran;Akella V. S. Sudhakar;Falko P. Drijfhout;Ian A. N. Dublon;Ian A. N. Dublon

  • Polygyny reduces rather than increases nestmate discrimination cue diversity in Formica exsecta ants

    S. J. Martin;H. Helanterä;K. Kiss;Y. R. Lee

  • Cuticular Hydrocarbons Provide Reliable Cues of Fertility in the Ant Gnamptogenys striatula

    Els Lommelen;Christine A. Johnson;Falko P. Drijfhout;Johan Billen

  • Biological nitrogen fixation in peatlands: comparison between acetylene reduction assay and 15N2 assimilation methods

    Ernesto Saiz;Fotis Sgouridis;Falko P. Drijfhout;Sami Ullah

  • Sex-related perception of insect and plant volatiles in Lygocoris pabulinus

    A.T. Groot;R. Timmer;G. Gort;G.P. Lelyveld

  • Potential use of hydrocarbons for aging Lucilia sericata blowfly larvae to establish the postmortem interval.

    Hannah E. Moore;Craig D. Adam;Falko P. Drijfhout

  • Hydrocarbon profiles throughout adult Calliphoridae aging: A promising tool for forensic entomology

    Jennifer L. Pechal;Hannah Moore;Falko Drijfhout;M. Eric Benbow

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen J. Martin
Stephen J. Martin University of Salford
Astrid T. Groot
Astrid T. Groot University of Amsterdam
Heikki Helanterä
Heikki Helanterä University of Oulu
Jaap Visser
Jaap Visser Utrecht University
Patrizia d'Ettorre
Patrizia d'Ettorre Paris 13 University
Alan Richardson
Alan Richardson Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Johan Billen
Johan Billen KU Leuven
Jacobus J. Boomsma
Jacobus J. Boomsma University of Copenhagen
Teris A. van Beek
Teris A. van Beek Wageningen University & Research

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