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Timothy A. Linksvayer

Timothy A. Linksvayer

Arizona State University
United States

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
33
Citations
4240
World Ranking
7877
National Ranking
2632

Timothy A. Linksvayer publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 115 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Timothy A. Linksvayer 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 Timothy A. Linksvayer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Timothy A. Linksvayer is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, their work focuses on subfields including Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Plant Science.

Linksvayer's research topics cover a range of subjects related to insect biology and behavior, including:

  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research

Recent publications by Linksvayer include the following papers:

  • Microbiome breeding: conceptual and practical issues (2022) in Trends in Microbiology
  • Wolbachia-infected ant colonies have increased reproductive investment and an accelerated life cycle (2020) in Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Ant Collective Behavior Is Heritable and Shaped by Selection (2020) in The American Naturalist
  • Distributed physiology and the molecular basis of social life in eusocial insects (2020) in Hormones and Behavior
  • Ant cuticular hydrocarbons are heritable and associated with variation in colony productivity (2020) in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Sachin Suresh
  • Justin Walsh
  • Rohini Singh
  • Chao Tong
  • Leticia Avilés

Linksvayer's work has been published in a variety of scientific journals, with multiple contributions in these venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Trends in Microbiology
  • The American Naturalist

Best Publications

  • Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

  • The evolutionary origin and elaboration of sociality in the aculeate Hymenoptera: maternal effects, sib-social effects, and heterochrony.

    Timothy A. Linksvayer;Michael J. Wade

  • The Neuropeptide Corazonin Controls Social Behavior and Caste Identity in Ants.

    Janko Gospocic;Emily J. Shields;Karl M. Glastad;Yanping Lin

  • Deconstructing the Superorganism: Social Physiology, Groundplans, and Sociogenomics

    Brian R. Johnson;Timothy A. Linksvayer

  • Direct, maternal, and sibsocial genetic effects on individual and colony traits in an ant.

    Timothy A. Linksvayer

  • DIRECT, MATERNAL, AND SIBSOCIAL GENETIC EFFECTS ON INDIVIDUAL AND COLONY TRAITS IN AN ANT

    Unknown

  • Blending of heritable recognition cues among ant nestmates creates distinct colony gestalt odours but prevents within‐colony nepotism

    J. S. Van Zweden;J. B. Brask;J. H. Christensen;J. J. Boomsma

  • Larval and nurse worker control of developmental plasticity and the evolution of honey bee queen–worker dimorphism

    Timothy A. Linksvayer;Osman Kaftanoglu;Ethem Akyol;Sydella Blatch;Sydella Blatch

  • GENES WITH SOCIAL EFFECTS ARE EXPECTED TO HARBOR MORE SEQUENCE VARIATION WITHIN AND BETWEEN SPECIES

    Timothy A. Linksvayer;Michael J. Wade

  • Rearing honey bees, Apis mellifera, in vitro 1: effects of sugar concentrations on survival and development.

    Osman Kaftanoglu;Timothy A. Linksvayer;Timothy A. Linksvayer;Robert E. Page

  • Multilevel and kin selection in a connected world

    Michael J. Wade;David S. Wilson;Charles Goodnight;Doug Taylor

  • Genes associated with ant social behavior show distinct transcriptional and evolutionary patterns

    Alexander S Mikheyev;Timothy A Linksvayer

  • Large-Scale Coding Sequence Change Underlies the Evolution of Postdevelopmental Novelty in Honey Bees

    William Cameron Jasper;Timothy A. Linksvayer;Joel Atallah;Daniel Friedman

  • Convergent eusocial evolution is based on a shared reproductive groundplan plus lineage-specific plastic genes

    Michael R. Warner;Lijun Qiu;Michael J. Holmes;Michael J. Holmes;Alexander S. Mikheyev;Alexander S. Mikheyev

  • The Genetic Basis of Transgressive Ovary Size in Honeybee Workers

    Timothy A. Linksvayer;Olav Rueppell;Adam Siegel;Osman Kaftanoglu

  • Ant Species Differences Determined by Epistasis between Brood and Worker Genomes

    Timothy A. Linksvayer

  • Kin selection-mutation balance: a model for the origin, maintenance, and consequences of social cheating

    J. David Van Dyken;Timothy A. Linksvayer;Timothy A. Linksvayer;Michael J. Wade

  • Honeybee social regulatory networks are shaped by colony-level selection.

    Timothy A. Linksvayer;Michael K. Fondrk;Robert E. Page

  • The Molecular and Evolutionary Genetic Implications of Being Truly Social for the Social Insects

    Timothy A. Linksvayer

  • The conversion of variance and the evolutionary potential of restricted recombination

    M Neiman;T A Linksvayer

  • Regulation of behaviorally associated gene networks in worker honey bee ovaries.

    Ying Wang;Sarah D. Kocher;Timothy A. Linksvayer;Christina M. Grozinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander S. Mikheyev
Alexander S. Mikheyev Australian National University
Patrizia d'Ettorre
Patrizia d'Ettorre Paris 13 University
Robert E. Page
Robert E. Page University of California, Davis
Gro V. Amdam
Gro V. Amdam Arizona State University
Michael J. Wade
Michael J. Wade Indiana University
Ulrich G. Mueller
Ulrich G. Mueller The University of Texas at Austin
Jacobus J. Boomsma
Jacobus J. Boomsma University of Copenhagen
Olav Rueppell
Olav Rueppell University of Alberta
Jonathan N. Pruitt
Jonathan N. Pruitt McMaster University
Christina M. Grozinger
Christina M. Grozinger Pennsylvania State University

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