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Jeremy Field is a researcher affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their work spans multiple areas within agricultural and biological sciences, with a strong focus on ecology, evolution, and behavior. Their specialized research fields include genetics and insect science, with additional involvement in cellular and molecular neuroscience as well as sociology and political science.

The main topics addressed in their research involve a broad range of biological studies and insect-related investigations. These topics include:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect and arachnid ecology and behavior
  • Insect and pesticide research
  • Animal behavior and reproduction
  • Insect-plant interactions and control
  • Neurobiology and insect physiology research
  • Evolutionary game theory and cooperation

Their recent published papers demonstrate varied interests within these fields. Notable publications include:

  • The evolution of parental care strategies in subsocial wasps (2020, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology)
  • Sensory plasticity in a socially plastic bee (2022, Journal of Evolutionary Biology)
  • A cytochrome P450 insecticide detoxification mechanism is not conserved across the Megachilidae family of bees (2023, Evolutionary Applications)
  • Male survivorship and the evolution of eusociality in partially bivoltine sweat bees (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • Split sex ratios and genetic relatedness in a primitively eusocial sweat bee (2020, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology)

Frequent coauthors in their work include Rebecca A. Boulton, Jodie Gruber, Rosa Leena Bonifacii, Mariska Beekman, and Bart A. Pannebakker.

The venues where Jeremy Field often publishes research encompass:

  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • PLoS ONE
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Evolutionary Applications

Best Publications

  • Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

  • Helping effort and future fitness in cooperative animal societies

    Michael A. Cant;Jeremy Field

  • Nest Inheritance Is the Missing Source of Direct Fitness in a Primitively Eusocial Insect

    Ellouise Leadbeater;Jonathan M. Carruthers;Jonathan M. Carruthers;Jonathan P. Green;Neil S. Rosser

  • INTRASPECIFIC PARASITISM AS AN ALTERNATIVE REPRODUCTIVE TACTIC IN NEST‐BUILDING WASPS AND BEES

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  • Future fitness and helping in social queues

    Jeremy Field;Adam Cronin;Catherine Bridge

  • SOCIAL AND GENETIC STRUCTURE OF PAPER WASP COFOUNDRESS ASSOCIATIONS : TESTS OF REPRODUCTIVE SKEW MODELS

    Jeremy Field;Carlos R. Solís;David C. Queller;Joan E. Strassmann

  • Insurance-based advantage to helpers in a tropical hover wasp

    Jeremy Field;Gavin Shreeves;Seirian Sumner;Seirian Sumner;Maurizio Casiraghi;Maurizio Casiraghi

  • Group size and direct fitness in social queues.

    Gavin Shreeves;Jeremy Field

  • Cryptic plasticity underlies a major evolutionary transition.

    Jeremy Field;Robert J. Paxton;Robert J. Paxton;Antonella Soro;Catherine Bridge

  • Individual variation in social aggression and the probability of inheritance: theory and a field test

    Michael A. Cant;Justine B. Llop;Jeremy Field

  • Group size, queuing and helping decisions in facultatively eusocial hover wasps

    Jeremy Field;Gavin Shreeves;Seirian Sumner

  • Complex sociogenetic organization and reproductive skew in a primitively eusocial sweat bee, Lasioglossum malachurum, as revealed by microsatellites

    Robert J. Paxton;Manfred Ayasse;Jeremy Field;Antonella Soro

  • Cues, concessions, and inheritance: dominance hierarchies in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus

    Lorenzo Zanette;Jeremy Field

  • Queuing for dominance: gerontocracy and queue-jumping in the hover wasp Liostenogaster flavolineata

    Catherine Bridge;Jeremy Field

  • Escalated conflict in a social hierarchy.

    M.A Cant;S English;H.K Reeve;J Field

  • The evolution of progressive provisioning

    Jeremy Field

  • Helping effort in a dominance hierarchy

    Michael A. Cant;Jeremy Field

  • Ecological constraints on independent nesting in facultatively eusocial hover wasps

    Jeremy Field;William Foster;Gavin Shreeves;Seirian Sumner

  • Sex-biased dispersal, haplodiploidy and the evolution of helping in social insects.

    Rufus A. Johnstone;Michael A. Cant;Jeremy Field

  • Pre-social benefits of extended parental care

    Jeremy Field;Selina Brace

  • Insurance–based advantages for subordinate co–foundresses in a temperate paper wasp

    Gavin Shreeves;Michael A. Cant;Alan Bolton;Jeremy Field

  • Helping behaviour in facultatively eusocial hover wasps: an experimental test of the subfertility hypothesis.

    Jeremy Field;William Foster

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Cant
Michael A. Cant University of Exeter
Robert J. Paxton
Robert J. Paxton Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
William A. Foster
William A. Foster University of Cambridge
Rufus A. Johnstone
Rufus A. Johnstone University of Cambridge
Hudson K. Reeve
Hudson K. Reeve Cornell University
Deborah A. Dawson
Deborah A. Dawson University of Sheffield
Stefano Turillazzi
Stefano Turillazzi University of Florence
David C. Queller
David C. Queller Washington University in St. Louis
Leonardo Dapporto
Leonardo Dapporto University of Florence
John Tooby
John Tooby University of California, Santa Barbara

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