The bibliography of published papers for this project is below.  These papers are available as *.pdf files by clicking on the link.

Cole, B.J. 1994.  Nest architecture in the western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Cresson).  Insectes Sociaux 41:401-410 .

Wiernasz, D.C., J. Yencharis, B.J. Cole. 1995.  Size and mating success in males of the western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis.  The Journal of Insect Behavior 8(4): 523-531.

Wiernasz, D.C. and B.J. Cole.  1995.  Spatial distribution of Pogonomyrmex occidentalis:  recruitment, mortality and overdispersion.  The Journal of Animal Ecology 64: 519-527.

Cole, B.J. and D.C. Wiernasz. 1997.  Inbreeding and the population structure of a lek-mating ant species, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis.  Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 40(2):79-86.

Abell, A., B.J. Cole, R. Reyes and D.C. Wiernasz. 1999.  Sexual selection on body size and shape in the western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis.  Evolution 53(2): 535-545.

Cole, B.J. and D.C. Wiernasz. 1999.  The selective advantage of low relatedness: growth in the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis.  Science 285(5429):  891-893.

Cole, B.J. and D.C. Wiernasz. 2000.  The nature of ant colony success.  Science 287:1363B.

Cole, B.J. and D.C. Wiernasz. 2000. Size and reproduction in the western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis .  Insectes Sociaux.  47:249-255.

Cole, B.J., K. Haight and D.C. Wiernasz. 2001.  The spatial distribution of Myrmecocystus mexicanus:  association with Pogonomyrmex occidentalis  Annals of the Entomological Society of America.  94(1):59-63.

Wiernasz, D.C., A. Sater, A. Abell, and B.J. Cole.  2001. Male size, sperm transfer, and colony fitness in the western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis. Evolution 55:324-329.

 Billick, I., D.C. Wiernasz and  B.J. Cole.  2001.  Recruitment in the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis :  effects of experimental removal.  Oecologia, 129 (2): 228-233.

Cole, B.J. and D. C. Wiernasz.  2002.  Recruitment limitation and population density in the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis. Ecology 83(5):1433-1442. This is the pdf version of the published paper....It is a large file due to a color figure.  The color figure is somewhat odd in this scanned version.  It is much better as Figure 3 below.  This link is for a more compact version with Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Wiernasz, D.C. and B.J. Cole 2003.  Queen size mediates queen survival and colony fitness in harvester ants. Evolution 57 (9): 2179-2183.  
 
Wiernasz, D.C., C. Perroni, B.J. Cole. 2004. Polyandry and fitness in the western harvester ant Pogonomyrmex occidentalis. Molecular Ecology 13: 1601-1606.

Billick, I., B. Cole, D.C. Wiernasz. 2004. The scale of recruitment limitation in the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 97 (4):738-742.

Diane C. Wiernasz, Jessica Hines, Dara G. Parker, Blaine J. Cole. 2008.  Mating for variety increases foraging activity in the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis.  Molecular Ecology 17:1137-1144.  This is not a pdf of the printed Molecular Ecology paper.  Molecular Ecology threatens a variety of scary things if the printed version is posted.  This is a pdf of the accepted version.  Those wishing a copy of the pdf can email us.  

Blaine J. Cole, Rebecca Edwards, Carter Tate Holbrook, Lindsey Holm,Joslin Heyward, Diane C. Wiernasz.  2008.  Does foraging activity affect foraging success in the western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Cresson) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)?  Annals of the Entomological Society of America.  101(1):272-276.