Dr. Bethia H. King - Publications 

Underlined date links to list of abstracts. To access full article, click on the underlined volume and pages or on the link to the journal's web site.  Where possible for articles that predate e-reprints, I made a pdf of my word document of the manuscript (click on volume:page numbers). If the article is only available scanned, the size of the file is given. Email me for any reprints that you can't access or that you want in the  proper reprint format: bking@niu.edu
 

  • King. B. H. Fitness effects of polyandry in a monandrous species, the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius. in prep.
  • King. B. H. 2008? Effects of sex and mating status on who initiates contact in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Journal of Insect Behavior
  • King, B. H. and Dickenson, R. M. 2008. Functional and nonfunctional female receptivity signals in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius. Environmental Entomology
  • King, B. H. and Dickenson, R. M. 2008. A behavioral study of proximal mechanisms of male recognition of female mating status in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 101(1):229-234.
  • Fischer, C. R. and King, B. H. 2008. Sexual inhibition in Spalangia endius males after mating and time for ejaculate replenishment. Journal of Insect Behavior 21:1-8.
  • King, B. H. 2007. The effect of exposure to conspecifics on restlessness in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). The Canadian Entomologist 139:678-684.
  • King. B. H. and M. E. Napoleon. 2006. Using effects of parasitoid size on fitness to test a host quality model assumption with the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius. Canadian Journal of Zoology 84:1-5
  • King. B. H.  2006. Mate location and the onset of sexual responsiveness in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius (Hymenoptera:  Pteromalidae). Environmental Entomology 35:1390-1395.
  • King, B. H. and H. Leaich. 2006. Variation in propensity to exhibit thanatosis in Nasonia vitripennis. Journal of Insect Behavior 19(2):241-249. 
  • King, B. H. and J. H. Ellison. 2006. Resource quality affects restlessness in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 118:71-76. The definitive version is available at  www.blackwell-synergy.com
  • King, B. H. and Fischer, C. R. 2005. Males mate guard in absentia through extended effects of postcopulatory courtship in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius. Journal of Insect Physiology 51:1340-1345  The original publication is available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00221910
  • King, B. H., Saporito, K. B., Ellison, J. H. and Bratzke, R. M. 2005. Unattractiveness of mated females to males in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 52:17-24. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.
  • King, B. H. and J. A. D'Souza. 2004. Effects of constrained females on offspring sex ratios of Nasonia vitripennis in relation to local mate competition theory. Canadian Journal of Zoology 82 (12):1969-1974.
  • Olbrich, D. L. and B. H. King.2003. House fly and stable fly (Diptera: Muscidae) pupae and their parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) in different habitats on a northern Illinois dairy farm. Great Lakes Entomologist 36:179-190.
  • Baeder, J. and B. H. King. 2004. Associative learning of color by males of the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera:  Pteromalidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 17:201-213.
  • King, B. H. 2002. Sex ratio response to conspecifics in a parasitoid wasp: test of a prediction of  local mate competition theory and alternative hypotheses. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 52:17-24.The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.
  • King, B. H. 2002. Offspring number and sex ratio response to proportion of host sizes and ages in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia cameroni (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae).Environmental Entomology 31:505-508.
  • King, B. H. 2002. Breeding strategies in females of the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius: effects of mating status and body size. Journal of Insect Behavior 15:181-193.
  • King, B. H. 2001. Parasitization site on the host of the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Environmental Entomology 30:346-349.
  • King, B. H. 2000. Sperm depletion and mating behavior in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia cameroni (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). The Great Lakes Entomologist 33:117-127.
  • Oliai, S.E. and B. H. King.2000. The associative learning capabilities of the parasitoid wasp, Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 13:55-69.
  • King, B. H. 2000. Sex ratio and oviposition responses to host age and the fitness consequences to mother and offspring in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius.Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 48:316-320.             The original publication is available with subscription at www.springerlink.com.
  • King BH, Grimm KM, Reno HE. 2000. Effect of mating on the locomotor activity in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Environmental Entomology 29(5):927-933
  • Napoleon ME, King BH.1999. Offspring sex ratio response to host size in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 46:325-332.                                The original publication is available with subscription at www.springerlink.com.
  • King BH. 1998. Challenges for dual career couples: an example. Supplement to the Newsletter of the Canadian Association of University Teachers. invited
  • King BH. 1998. Host age response in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia cameroni (Hymenoptera:Pteromalidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 11:103-117.
  • King BH, Crowe ML, Blackmore MD.1998. Effects of leaf age response on oviposition and on offspring fitness in the imported willow leaf beetle Plagiodera versicolora (Coleopterahrysomelidae). Journal of  Insect Behavior 11:23-36. The original publication is available with subscription at www.springerlink.com
  • King BH. 1997. Effects of host age and burial of house fly (Diptera: Muscidae) pupae on parasitism by Spalangia cameroni and Muscidifurax raptor Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Environmental Entomology 26:410-415.
  • King BH. 1996. Sex ratio responses to other parasitoid wasps: multiple adaptive explanations.Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 39:367-374. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.
  • King BH. 1996. Fitness effects of sex ratio response to host quality and size in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia cameroni. Behavioral Ecology 7:35-42.
  • King BH, King RB.1995. Sibmating and its fitness consequences in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia cameroni (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 8:723-730.
  • King BH, Crowe ML, Skinner SW. 1995. Effect of host density on offspring sex ratios and behavioral interactions between females in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 8:89-102
  • King BH. 1994. Effects of host size experience on sex ratios in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia cameroni. Animal Behaviour 47:815-820.
  • King BH. 1994. How do female parasitoid wasps assess host size during sex-ratio manipulation? Animal Behaviour 48:511-518.
  • King BH, Lee HE. 1994. Test of the adaptiveness of sex ratio manipulation in a parasitoid wasp. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 35:437-443. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.
  • King BH, King RB. 1994.Sex ratio manipulation in response to host size in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia cameroni: is it adaptive? Behavioral Ecology 5:448-454
  • King BH. 1993.Sex ratio manipulation by parasitoid wasps. pp. 418-441. In: Wrensch DL,  Ebbert, M (eds). Evolution and Diversity of Sex Ratio in Insects and Mites. Chapman and Hall, New York12,257kb pdf: scanned reprint   or     137 kb pdf = manuscript 
  • King BH. 1993. Flight activity in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera:Pteromalidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 6:313-321
  • King BH. 1993.Sequence of offspring sex production in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis in response to unparasitized versus parasitized hosts. Animal Behaviour 45:1236-1238.
  • King BH, Seidl SE. 1993. Sex ratio response of the parasitoid wasp Muscidifurax raptor to other females. Oecologia 94:428-433
  • Crowe ML, King BH. 1993. Differences in the proportion of women to men invited to give seminars: Is the old boy still kicking five years later? Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, December
  • Seidl SE, King BH. 1993. Sex ratio response to host size in the parasitoid wasp Muscidifurax raptor. Evolution 47:1876-1882
  • King BH. 1992. Sex ratios of the wasp Nasonia vitripennis from self- versus  conspecifically-parasitized hosts: local mate competition versus host quality models. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 5:445-455
  • King BH. 1991. A field study of host size effects on sex ratio of the parasitoid wasp Spalangia cameroni. American Midland Naturalist 125:10-17 
  • King BH. 1991. No intersexual differences in host size and species usage in Spalangia endius (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Great Lakes Entomologist 24:17-20
  • King RB, King BH. 1991. Sexual differences in color and color change in woodfrogs. Canadian Journal of Zoology 69:1963-1968. 
  • King BH, Skinner SW. 1991. Proximal mechanisms of the sex ratio and clutch size responses of the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis to parasitized hosts. Animal Behaviour 42:23-32
  • King BH, Skinner SW. 1991. Sex ratio in a new species of Nasonia with fully-winged males. Evolution 45:225-228
  • King BH. 1990. Interspecific differences in host (Diptera: Muscidae) size and species usage among parasitoid wasps Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) in a poultry house. Environmental  Entomology 19:1519-1522. 1931 kb scanned reprint
  • King BH. 1990. Sex ratio manipulation by the parasitoid wasp Spalangia cameroni in response to host age: a test of the host-size model. Evolutionary Ecology 4:149-156
  • King BH. 1989. Host size-dependent sex ratios among parasitoid wasps: Does host growth matter? Oecologia 78:420-426
  • King BH. 1989. A test of local mate competition theory with a solitary species of parasitoid wasp, Spalangia cameroni. Oikos 55:50-54
  • King BH. 1988. Sex ratio manipulation in response to host size by the parasitoid wasp Spalangia cameroni: a laboratory study. Evolution 42:1190-1198. 4443 kb scanned reprint 
  • King BH. 1987. Offspring sex ratios in parasitoid wasps. Quarterly Review of Biology 62:367-396.
  • Hurlbutt BL. 1987. Sexual size dimorphism in parasitoid wasps. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 30:63- 89. 
  • Hurlbutt BL. 1987. Sex ratio in a parasitoid wasp, Spalangia cameroni (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Ph.D. dissertation, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
  • Wolff JO, Hurlbutt BL. 1982. Day refuges of Peromyscus leucopus and Peromyscus  maniculatus. Journal of Mammology 63:666-668.

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