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Paul J. Ode is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong focus on subfields such as Insect Science, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics related to insect-plant interactions and control, plant and animal studies, plant parasitism and resistance, insect and pesticide research, insect pest control strategies, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, and insect symbiosis and bacterial influences.

Recent publications by Paul J. Ode include:

  • "Scientists' warning on climate change and insects," 2022, Ecological Monographs
  • "Generalising indirect defence and resistance of plants," 2020, Ecology Letters
  • "Extrinsic Inter- and Intraspecific Competition in Parasitoid Wasps," 2021, Annual Review of Entomology
  • "Trait-based approaches to predicting biological control success: challenges and prospects," 2023, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "A Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of the Parasitoid Wasp, Cotesia glomerata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)," 2021, Journal of Heredity

Frequent coauthors with whom Paul J. Ode has collaborated include:

  • Ryan L. Paul
  • Ian S. Pearse
  • Enakshi Ghosh
  • Jeffrey A. Harvey
  • William C. Wetzel

The scientist's work has been published in a range of venues, with multiple publications appearing in:

  • Functional Ecology
  • Ecology Letters
  • Environmental Entomology
  • Current Opinion in Insect Science
  • Ecological Monographs

Best Publications

  • Sex ratios : concepts and research methods

    Ian C.W. Hardy

  • Scientists' warning on climate change and insects

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  • Plant chemistry and natural enemy fitness: effects on herbivore and natural enemy interactions.

    Paul J. Ode

  • Sibling rivalry and brood sex ratios in polyembryonic wasps

    Miodrag Grbić;Paul J. Ode;Michael R. Strand

  • Host-size-dependent sex ratio theory and improving mass-reared parasitoid sex ratios

    Paul J. Ode;Kevin M. Heinz

  • Brood-mate avoidance in the parasitic waspBracon hebetorSay

    Paul J. Ode;Michael F. Antolin;Michael R. Strand

  • Progeny and sex allocation decisions of the polyembryonic wasp Copidosoma floridanum.

    Paul J. Ode;Michael R. Strand

  • Host plant, host plant chemistry and the polyembryonic parasitoid Copidosoma sosares : indirect effects in a tritrophic interaction

    Paul J. Ode;Paul J. Ode;May R. Berenbaum;Arthur R. Zangerl;Ian C. W. Hardy;Ian C. W. Hardy

  • Integration of Plant Defense Traits with Biological Control of Arthropod Pests: Challenges and Opportunities

    Julie A. Peterson;Paul J. Ode;Camila Oliveira-Hofman;James D. Harwood

  • Parasitoid Sex Ratios and Biological Control

    Paul J. Ode;Ian C.W. Hardy

  • Generalising indirect defence and resistance of plants

    Ian S. Pearse;Eric LoPresti;Robert N. Schaeffer;William C. Wetzel

  • Constrained oviposition and female-biased sex allocation in a parasitic wasp.

    P. J. Ode;Michael F. Antolin;Michael R. Strand

  • Variable sex ratios and ovicide in an outbreeding parasitic wasp

    Michael F. Antolin;Paul J. Ode;Michael R. Strand

  • Diploid males sire triploid daughters and sons in the parasitoid wasp Cotesia vestalis.

    J. G. De Boer;P. J. Ode;L. E.M. Vet;J. B. Whitfield

  • Sex allocation and sexual asymmetries in intra-brood competition in the parasitic wasp Bracon hebetor.

    Paul J. Ode;Michael F. Antolin;Michael R. Strand

  • Oviposition vs. offspring fitness in Aphidius colemani parasitizing different aphid species

    Paul J. Ode;Paul J. Ode;Keith R. Hopper;Moshe Coll

  • Indirect plant-parasitoid interactions mediated by changes in herbivore physiology.

    Ian Kaplan;Juli Carrillo;Michael Garvey;Paul J Ode

  • Experimental support for multiple-locus complementary sex determination in the parasitoid Cotesia vestalis

    Jetske G. de Boer;Paul J. Ode;Aaron K. Rendahl;Louise E. M. Vet

  • Population structure, mating system, and sex-determining allele diversity of the parasitoid wasp Habrobracon hebetor

    M F Antolin;P J Ode;G E Heimpel;R B O'Hara

  • Atmospheric change and induced plant secondary metabolites — are we reshaping the building blocks of multi-trophic interactions?

    Paul J Ode;Scott N Johnson;Ben D Moore

  • Variation in Plant Defense Suppresses Herbivore Performance

    Ian S. Pearse;Ryan Paul;Paul J. Ode

Frequent Co-Authors

George E. Heimpel
George E. Heimpel University of Minnesota
Michael F. Antolin
Michael F. Antolin Colorado State University
Jeffrey A. Harvey
Jeffrey A. Harvey Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Rieta Gols
Rieta Gols Wageningen University & Research
Ian C.W. Hardy
Ian C.W. Hardy University of Helsinki
Louise E. M. Vet
Louise E. M. Vet Wageningen University & Research
Ian S. Pearse
Ian S. Pearse United States Geological Survey
May R. Berenbaum
May R. Berenbaum University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Arthur R. Zangerl
Arthur R. Zangerl University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
James B. Whitfield
James B. Whitfield University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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