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. 2009. 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.
Lubertazzi, D., D.C. Wiernasz and B.J. Cole. 2013. Competitive advantages of early onset foraging in Pogonomyrmex occidentalis. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 106(1):72-78.
Wiernasz, D.C. B.A. Cole and B.J. Cole. 2014 . Defending the nest: variation in the alarm aggression response and nest mound damage in the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex occidentalis. Insectes Sociaux 61:273-279.
Wiernasz D.C., B. J. Cole and B. A. Cole. 2014. Maternal and paternal influences on mating frequency in harvester ants. Animal Behaviour 97:87-94.
Wiernasz, D.C. and B.J. Cole. 2018. Offspring size and reproductive allocation in harvester ants. American Naturalist 191(10): .
