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4490
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7622
National Ranking
100

Overview

Philip J. Lester is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant focus on insect science and genetics.

The scientist's work covers subfields including Insect Science, Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, and Plant Science. Research topics include Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Insect and Pesticide Research, Plant and Animal Studies, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Insect Symbiosis and Bacterial Influences, Insect Resistance and Genetics, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Among the recent publications authored by Philip J. Lester are the following:

  • The potential for a CRISPR gene drive to eradicate or suppress globally invasive social wasps (2020) published in Scientific Reports
  • The outlook for control of New Zealand's most abundant, widespread and damaging invertebrate pests: social wasps (2023) published in New Zealand Science Review

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Philip J. Lester include Mariana Bulgarella, John Haywood, James W. Baty, Antoine Felden, and Rose A. McGruddy.

The scientist's publications often appear in venues such as Insects, Ecological Applications, Viruses, Frontiers in Bee Science, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

  • Relative roles of climatic suitability and anthropogenic influence in determining the pattern of spread in a global invader

    Núria Roura-Pascual;Cang Hui;Takayoshi Ikeda;Gwénaël G R Leday

  • Quantifying uncertainty in the potential distribution of an invasive species: climate and the Argentine ant

    Stephen Hartley;Richard Harris;Philip J. Lester

  • Invasion Success and Management Strategies for Social Vespula Wasps.

    Philip J. Lester;Jacqueline R. Beggs

  • Functional and numerical responses do not always indicate the most effective predator for biological control: an analysis of two predators in a two‐prey system

    P. J. Lester;R. Harmsen

  • The potential for the use of gene drives for pest control in New Zealand: a perspective

    Peter K. Dearden;Neil J. Gemmell;Ocean R. Mercier;Philip J. Lester

  • Demersal fish community diversity off New Zealand: Is it related to depth, latitude and regional surface phytoplankton?

    S. McClatchie;R.B. Millar;F. Webster;P.J. Lester

  • Determinants for the successful establishment of exotic ants in New Zealand

    Philip J. Lester

  • Behavioural plasticity associated with propagule size, resources, and the invasion success of the Argentine ant Linepithema humile

    Katayo Sagata;Philip J. Lester

  • Temperature-dependent development of the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile (Mayr) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a degree-day model with implications for range limits in New Zealand.

    Stephen Hartley;Philip J. Lester

  • Effects of riparian willow trees (Salix fragilis) on macroinvertebrate densities in two small Central Otago, New Zealand, streams

    Philip J. Lester;Stuart F. Mitchell;D. Scott

  • The widespread collapse of an invasive species: Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) in New Zealand

    Meghan Cooling;Stephen Hartley;Dalice A. Sim;Philip J. Lester

  • Long-Legged Ants, Anoplolepis gracilipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Have Invaded Tokelau, Changing Composition and Dynamics of Ant and Invertebrate Communities

    Philip J. Lester;Alapati Tavite

  • Invasive ants carry novel viruses in their new range and form reservoirs for a honeybee pathogen

    Alexandra Sébastien;Philip J. Lester;Richard J. Hall;Jing Wang

  • Changes in the Bacteriome of Honey Bees Associated with the Parasite Varroa destructor, and Pathogens Nosema and Lotmaria passim.

    Jan Hubert;Martina Bicianova;Ondrej Ledvinka;Martin Kamler

  • Integrating physiology, population dynamics and climate to make multi-scale predictions for the spread of an invasive insect: the Argentine ant at Haleakala National Park, Hawaii

    Stephen Hartley;Paul D. Krushelnycky;Philip J. Lester

  • A neurotoxic pesticide changes the outcome of aggressive interactions between native and invasive ants

    Rafael F. Barbieri;Philip J. Lester;Alexander S. Miller;Ken G. Ryan

  • Large scale unicoloniality: the population and colony structure of the invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) in New Zealand

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  • Booms, busts and population collapses in invasive ants

    Philip J. Lester;Monica A. M. Gruber

  • Pathogen shifts in a honeybee predator following the arrival of the Varroa mite.

    Kevin J. Loope;James W. Baty;James W. Baty;Philip J. Lester;Erin E. Wilson Rankin

  • Some effects of pre-release host-plant on the biological control of Panonychus ulmi by the predatory mite Amblyseius fallacis.

    P.J. Lester;H.M.A. Thistlewood;R. Harmsen

  • Single-stranded RNA viruses infecting the invasive Argentine ant, Linepithema humile

    Monica A. M. Gruber;Meghan Cooling;James W. Baty;James W. Baty;Kevin Buckley

  • The potential for a CRISPR gene drive to eradicate or suppress globally invasive social wasps.

    Philip J. Lester;Mariana Bulgarella;James W. Baty;Peter K. Dearden

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip Weinstein
Philip Weinstein University of Adelaide
Barnaby J. W. Dixson
Barnaby J. W. Dixson University of Queensland
Andrew V. Suarez
Andrew V. Suarez University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jacqueline R. Beggs
Jacqueline R. Beggs University of Auckland
Juan C. Corley
Juan C. Corley Universidad Nacional del Comahue
David G. Chapple
David G. Chapple Monash University
Neil J. Gemmell
Neil J. Gemmell University of Otago
Nathan J. Sanders
Nathan J. Sanders University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Neil D. Tsutsui
Neil D. Tsutsui University of California, Berkeley

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