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.    

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.

Cole, B.J. 2008. The ecological setting of social evolution: the demography of ant populations. Chapter for: New frontiers in Behavioral Ecology–From Gene to Society. (J. Fewell, J. Gadau, eds.) Harvard Univ. Press. pp. 74-104.  Including appendix.

Diane C. Wiernasz and Blaine J. Cole. 2009.  Dioecy and the evolution of sex ratios in ants.  Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 209:2125-2132.

Blaine J. Cole, Adrian A. Smith, Zachary J. Huber, Diane C. Wiernasz. 2010.  The structure of foraging activity in colonies of the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis.  Behavioral Ecology, 21(2): 337-342.

Wiernasz, D.C. and B.J. Cole. 2010. Patriline shifting leads to apparent genetic caste determination in harvester ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. track 2, 107(29): 12958-12962.