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Heikki Helanterä

Heikki Helanterä

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
35
Citations
4350
World Ranking
7412
National Ranking
127

Heikki Helanterä publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Heikki Helanterä sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 139 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Heikki Helanterä D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Heikki Helanterä sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Heikki Helanterä is affiliated with the University of Oulu in Finland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these broader areas, they have focused on several subfields including Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Ecology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The research topics Helanterä has worked on are diverse but largely centered on insect biology and behavior. These include:

  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation

The scientist has published extensively, contributing notably to journals such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 15 publications
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences with 4 publications
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution with 3 publications
  • Molecular Ecology with 2 publications
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences with 2 publications

Recent papers by Helanterä include:

  • "An Ancient and Eroded Social Supergene Is Widespread across Formica Ants" (2020), published in Current Biology
  • "Multi-locus interactions and the build-up of reproductive isolation" (2020), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "The many ways to delimit species: hairs, genes and surface chemistry" (2023), published by Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • "Convergent evolution of a labile nutritional symbiosis in ants" (2022), published in The ISME Journal
  • "Ant queens (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) are attracted to fungal pathogens during the initial stage of colony founding" (2023), published in SERVAL (Université de Lausanne)

Helanterä frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Jonna Kulmuni
  • Michel Chapuisat
  • Ina Satokangas
  • Liselotte Sundström
  • Perttu Seppä

Best Publications

  • Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

  • Unicolonial ants: where do they come from, what are they and where are they going?

    Heikki Helanterä;Heikki Helanterä;Joan E. Strassmann;Juli Carrillo;David C. Queller

  • Worker reproduction and policing in insect societies: an ESS analysis.

    Tom Wenseleers;Heikki Helanterä;Adam G. Hart;Francis L.W. Ratnieks

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

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

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

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

  • The evolution of extreme altruism and inequality in insect societies

    Francis L. W. Ratnieks;Heikki Helanterä;Heikki Helanterä

  • Flower constancy in honey bee workers (Apis mellifera) depends on ecologically realistic rewards.

    Christoph Grüter;Heather Moore;Nicola Firmin;Heikki Helanterä;Heikki Helanterä

  • Comparative transcriptomics reveals the conserved building blocks involved in parallel evolution of diverse phenotypic traits in ants

    Claire Morandin;Mandy M. Y. Tin;Sílvia Abril;Crisanto Gómez

  • The Price equation and extended inheritance

    Heikki Helanterä;Tobias Uller

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

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

  • An Ancient and Eroded Social Supergene Is Widespread across Formica Ants

    Alan Brelsford;Alan Brelsford;Jessica Purcell;Jessica Purcell;Amaury Avril;Patrick Tran Van

  • Not only for egg yolk - functional and evolutionary insights from expression, selection and structural analyses of Formica ant vitellogenins

    Claire Morandin;Heli Havukainen;Jonna Kulmuni;Kishor Dhaygude

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

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

  • From the origin of sex-determining factors to the evolution of sex-determining systems.

    Tobias Uller;Heikki Helanterä

  • Niche Construction and Conceptual Change in Evolutionary Biology

    Tobias Uller;Tobias Uller;Heikki Helanterä

  • The Role of Brood in Eusocial Hymenoptera

    Eva Schultner;Jan Oettler;Heikki Helanterä

  • A Metatranscriptomic Approach to the Identification of Microbiota Associated with the Ant Formica exsecta

    Helena Johansson;Kishor Dhaygude;Stafva Lindström;Heikki Oskari Helanterä

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

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

  • Worker Reproduction in Formica Ants

    Heikki Helanterä;Liselotte Sundström

  • Deconstructing Superorganisms and Societies to Address Big Questions in Biology

    Patrick Kennedy;Gemma Baron;Bitao Qiu;Dalial Freitak

  • Habitat age, breeding system and kinship in the ant Formica fusca.

    Minttumaaria Hannonen;Heikki Helanterä;Liselotte Sundström

Frequent Co-Authors

Liselotte Sundström
Liselotte Sundström University of Helsinki
Francis L. W. Ratnieks
Francis L. W. Ratnieks University of Sussex
Tobias Uller
Tobias Uller Lund University
Stephen J. Martin
Stephen J. Martin University of Salford
Alexander S. Mikheyev
Alexander S. Mikheyev Australian National University
Perttu Seppä
Perttu Seppä University of Helsinki
Falko P. Drijfhout
Falko P. Drijfhout Keele University
Patrizia d'Ettorre
Patrizia d'Ettorre Paris 13 University
Pekka Pamilo
Pekka Pamilo University of Helsinki

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