2018

Darwell, C. T., Segar, S. T. and Cook, J. M. (2018) Conserved community structure and simultaneous divergence events in the fig wasps associated with Ficus benjamina in Australia and China. BMC Ecology, 18 (1). 13. ISSN 1472-6785 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12898-018-0167-y

2017

Cook, J. M., Reuter, C., Moore, J. C. and West, S. A. (2017) Molecular markers reveal reproductive strategies of non-pollinating fig wasps. Ecological Entomology, 42 (6). pp. 689-696. ISSN 0307-6946 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12433

Hall, A. A. G., Steinbauer, M. J., Taylor, G. S., Johnson, S. N., Cook, J. M. and Riegler, M. (2017) Unravelling mummies: cryptic diversity, host specificity, trophic and coevolutionary interactions in psyllid – parasitoid food webs. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 17. 127. ISSN 1471-2148 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-0959-2

Fromont, C., DeGabriel, J. L., Riegler, M. and Cook, J. M. (2017) Diversity and specificity of sap-feeding herbivores and their parasitoids on Australian fig trees. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 10 (2). pp. 107-119. ISSN 1752-4598 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12202

Darwell, C. T. and Cook, J. M. (2017) Cryptic diversity in a fig wasp community-morphologically differentiated species are sympatric but cryptic species are parapatric. Molecular Ecology, 26 (3). pp. 937-950. ISSN 1365-294X doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13985

2015

Cook, J. M., Reuter, C., Moore, J. C. and West, S. A. (2015) Fighting in fig wasps: do males avoid killing brothers or do they never meet them? Ecological Entomology, 40 (6). pp. 741-747. ISSN 0307-6946 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12250

Campbell, H., Fellowes, M. D.E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5431-8637 and Cook, J. (2015) The curious case of the camelthorn: competition, coexistence and nest-site limitation in a multispecies mutualism. American Naturalist, 186 (6). E172-E181. ISSN 0003-0147 doi: https://doi.org/10.1086/683462

Sutton, T. L., Reuter, C., Riegler, M. and Cook, J. M. (2015) Characterisation of microsatellite markers for fig-pollinating wasps in the Pleistodontes imperialis species complex. Australian Journal of Zoology, 63 (2). pp. 122-126. ISSN 0004-959X doi: https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO15011

Campbell, H., Fellowes, M. D. E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5431-8637 and Cook, J. M. (2015) Species diversity and dominance-richness relationships for ground and arboreal ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) assemblages in Namibian desert, saltpan, and savannah. Myrmecological News, 21. pp. 37-47. ISSN 1994-4136

2014

Wang, B., Geng, X.-Z., Ma, L.-B., Cook, J. M. and Wang, R.-W. (2014) A trophic cascade induced by predatory ants in a fig-fig wasp mutualism. Journal of Animal Ecology, 83 (5). pp. 1149-1157. ISSN 0021-8790 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12219

Darwell, C. T., al Beidh, S. and Cook, J. M. (2014) Molecular species delimitation of a symbiotic fig-pollinating wasp species complex reveals extreme deviation from reciprocal partner specificity. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14. 189. ISSN 1471-2148 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-014-0189-9

Segar, S. T., Dunn, D. W., Darwell, C. T. and Cook, J. M. (2014) How to be a fig wasp down under: the diversity and structure of an Australian fig wasp community. Acta Oecologica, 57. pp. 17-27. ISSN 1146-609X doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2013.03.014

2013

Segar, S. T., Pereira, R. A. S., Compton, S. G. C. and Cook, J. (2013) Convergent structure of multitrophic communities over three continents. Ecology Letters, 16 (12). pp. 1436-1445. ISSN 1461-0248 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12183

Campbell, H., Fellowes, M. D. E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5431-8637 and Cook, J. (2013) Arboreal thorn-dwelling ants use domatia morphology to partition nest sites on the savanna ant-plant, Vachellia erioloba. Insects Sociaux, 60 (3). pp. 373-382. ISSN 1420-9098 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-013-0307-5

Wang, H., Ridley, J., Dunn, D. W., Wang, R., Cook, J. M. and Yu, D. W. (2013) Biased oviposition and biased survival together help resolve a fig-wasp conflict. Oikos, 122 (4). pp. 533-540. ISSN 1600-0706 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20463.x

Campbell, H., Townsend, I. R., Fellowes, M. D. E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5431-8637 and Cook, J. M. (2013) Thorn-dwelling ants provide antiherbivore defence for camelthorn trees, Vachellia erioloba, in Namibia. African Journal of Ecology, 51 (4). pp. 590-598. ISSN 1365-2028 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12070

2012

Hughes, W., Yang, C.-Y., Xiao, J.-H., Niu, L.-M., Ma, G.-C., Cook, J. M., Bian, S.-N., Fu, Y.-G. and Huang, D.-W. (2012) Chaos of Wolbachia Sequences Inside the Compact Fig Syconia of Ficus benjamina (Ficus: Moraceae). PLoS ONE, 7 (11). e48882. ISSN 1932-6203 doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048882

Cruaud, A., Ronsted, N., Chantarasuwan, B., Chou, L. S., Clement, W. L., Couloux, A., Cousins, B., Genson, G., Harrison, R. D., Hanson, P. E., Hossaert-Mckey, M., Jabbour-zahab, R., Jousselin, E., Kerdelhue, C., Kjellberg, F., Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Peebles, J., Peng, Y.-Q., Pereira, R. A. S., Schramm, T., Ubaidillah, R., Noort, S. V., Weiblen, G. D., Yang, D.-R., Yodpinyanee, A., Libeskind-Hadas, R., Cook, J. M., Rasplus, J.-Y. and Savolainen, V. (2012) An extreme case of plant-insect co-diversification: figs and fig-pollinating wasps. Systematic Biology, 61 (6). pp. 1029-1047. ISSN 1063-5157 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/sys068

Xiao, J.-H., Wang, N.-X., Murphy, R. W., Cook, J., Jia, L.-Y. and Huang, D.-W. (2012) Wolbachia infection and dramatic intraspecific mitochondrial dna divergence in a fig wasp. Evolution, 66 (6). pp. 1907-1916. ISSN 0014-3820 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01561.x

Oliver, T. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4169-7313, Leather, S. R. and Cook, J. M. (2012) Ant larval demand reduces aphid colony growth rates in an ant-aphid interaction. Insects, 3 (1). pp. 120-130. ISSN 2075-4450 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/insects3010120

2011

Dunn, D. W., Jansen-González, S., Cook, J. M., Yu, D. W. and Pereira, R. A. S. (2011) Measuring the discrepancy between fecundity and lifetime reproductive success in a pollinating fig wasp. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 140 (3). pp. 218-225. ISSN 1570-7458 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1570-7458.2011.01151.x

Sun, X.-J., Xiao, J.-H., Cook, J. M., Feng, G. and Huang, D.-W. (2011) Comparisons of host mitochondrial, nuclear and endosymbiont bacterial genes reveal cryptic fig wasp species and the effects of Wolbachia on host mtDNA evolution and diversity. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11 (1). 86. ISSN 1471-2148 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-11-86

2010

Cook, J. M. and Segar, S. T. (2010) Speciation in fig wasps. Ecological Entomology, 35 (S1). pp. 54-66. ISSN 0307-6946 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.2009.01148.x

2009

Bouteiller-Reuter, C., Hale, M. L. and Cook, J. M. (2009) Characterization of microsatellite markers for Sycoscapter nonpollinating fig wasps. Molecular Ecology Resources, 9 (3). pp. 832-835. ISSN 1755-098X doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-0998.2008.02284.x

Delgado, A. M. and Cook, J. M. (2009) Effects of a sex-ratio distorting endosymbiont on mtDNA variation in a global insect pest. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 9. p. 10. ISSN 1471-2148 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-49

Stone, G. N., Hernandez-Lopez, A., Nicholls, J. A., di Pierro, E., Pujade-Villar, J., Melika, G. and Cook, J. M. (2009) Extreme host plant conservatism during at least 20 million years of host plant pursuit by oak gallwasps. Evolution, 63 (4). pp. 854-869. ISSN 0014-3820 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00604.x

Bailey, R., Schonrogge, K., Cook, J. M., Melika, G., Csoka, G., Thuroczy, C. and Stone, G. N. (2009) Host niches and defensive extended phenotypes structure parasitoid wasp communities. PLoS Biology, 7 (8). p. 12. ISSN 1544-9173 doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000179

Wang, R.U., Ridley, J., Sun, B.F., Zheng, Q., Dunn, D.W., Cook, J.M., Shi, B.F., Zhang, Y.P. and Yu, D.W. (2009) Interference competition and high temperature reduce the ‘virulence’ of fig wasps and contribute to stability of a fig-wasp mutualism. PLoS ONE, 4 (11). e7802. ISSN 1932-6203 doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007802

Moore, J. C., Obbard, D. J., Reuter, C., West, S. A. and Cook, J. M. (2009) Male morphology and dishonest signalling in a fig wasp. Animal Behaviour, 78 (1). pp. 147-153. ISSN 0003-3472 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.04.006

Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Wikstrom, N., Kjer, K. M., Weiblen, G. D., Rasplus, J. Y., Machado, C. A. and Cook, J. M. (2009) Molecular dating and biogeography of fig-pollinating wasps. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 52 (3). pp. 715-726. ISSN 1055-7903 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2009.05.028

Oliver, T. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4169-7313, Leather, S. R. and Cook, J. M. (2009) Tolerance traits and the stability of mutualism. Oikos, 118 (3). pp. 346-352. ISSN 0030-1299 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2008.17045.x

2008

Oliver, T. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4169-7313, Jones, I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7738-2516, Cook, J. M. and Leather, S. R. (2008) Avoidance responses of an aphidophagous ladybird, Adalia bipunctata, to aphid-tending ants. Ecological Entomology, 33 (4). pp. 523-528. ISSN 0307-6946 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.2008.01009.x

Moore, J. C., Obbard, D. J., Reuter, C., West, S. A. and Cook, J. M. (2008) Fighting strategies in two species of fig wasp. Animal Behaviour, 76. pp. 315-322. ISSN 0003-3472 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.01.018

Dunn, D. W., Yu, D. W., Ridley, J. and Cook, J. M. (2008) Longevity, early emergence and body size in a pollinating fig wasp - implications for stability in a fig-pollinator mutualism. Journal of Animal Ecology, 77 (5). pp. 927-935. ISSN 0021-8790 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01416.x

Oliver, T. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4169-7313, Leather, S. R. and Cook, J. M. (2008) Macroevolutionary patterns in the origin of mutualisms involving ants. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 21 (6). pp. 1597-1608. ISSN 1010-061X doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01600.x

Oliver, T. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4169-7313, Pettitt, T., Leather, S. R. and Cook, J. M. (2008) Numerical abundance of invasive ants and monopolisation of exudate-producing resources - a chicken and egg situation. Insect Conservation & Diversity, 1 (4). pp. 208-214. ISSN 1752-458X doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-4598.2008.00026.x

Ronsted, N., Weiblen, G. D., Savolainen, V. and Cook, J. M. (2008) Phylogeny, biogeography, and ecology of Ficus section Malvanthera (Moraceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 48 (1). pp. 12-22. ISSN 1055-7903 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2008.04.005

Jia, X. C., Yao, J. Y., Chen, Y. Z., Cook, J. M. and Crozier, R. H. (2008) The phenology and potential for self-pollination of two Australian monoecious fig species. Symbiosis, 45 (1-3). pp. 91-96. ISSN 0334-5114

Dunn, D. W., Segar, S. T., Ridley, J., Chan, R., Crozier, R. H., Yu, D. W. and Cook, J. M. (2008) A role for parasites in stabilising the fig-pollinator mutualism. PLoS Biology, 6 (3). pp. 490-496. ISSN 1544-9173 doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060059

2007

Oliver, T. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4169-7313, Mashanova, A., Leather, S. R., Cook, J. M. and Jansen, V. A. A. (2007) Ant semiochemicals limit apterous aphid dispersal. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 274 (1629). pp. 3127-3131. ISSN 0962-8452 doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2007.1251

Haine, E. R., Kabat, P. and Cook, J. M. (2007) Diverse mariner-like elements in fig wasps. Insect Molecular Biology, 16 (6). pp. 743-52. ISSN 0962-1075 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2583.2007.00767.x

Crozier, Y.C., Jia, X.C., Yao, J.Y. , Field, A.R. and Cook, J.M. (2007) Microsatellite primers for Ficus racemosa and Ficus rubiginosa. Molecular Ecology Notes, 7 (1). pp. 57-59. ISSN 1755-098X doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-8286.2006.01523.x

Oliver, T.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4169-7313, Cook, J.M. and Leather, S.R. (2007) When are ant-attractant devices a worthwhile investment? Vicia faba extrafloral nectaries and Lasius niger ants. Population Ecology, 49 (3). pp. 265-273. ISSN 1438-3896 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10144-007-0044-6