| Polinizadores no Brasil - contribuição e perspectivas para a biodiversidade, uso sustentável, conservação e serviços ambientais VL Imperatriz-Fonseca, DAL Canhos, DA Alves, AM Saraiva EDUSP 1, 488, 2012 | 55 | 2012 |
| Appetite for self-destruction: suicidal biting as a nest defense strategy in Trigona stingless bees K Shackleton, H Al Toufailia, NJ Balfour, FS Nascimento, DA Alves, ... Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 69 (2), 273-281, 2015 | 52 | 2015 |
| Working-class royalty: bees beat the caste system T Wenseleers, FLW Ratnieks, MF Ribeiro, DA Alves, ... Biology Letters 1 (2), 125-128, 2005 | 51 | 2005 |
| Successful maintenance of a stingless bee population despite a severe genetic bottleneck DA Alves, VL Imperatriz-Fonseca, TM Francoy, PS Santos-Filho, J Billen, ... Conservation Genetics 12 (3), 647-658, 2011 | 50 | 2011 |
| Meliponicultura no Brasil: situação atual e perspectivas futuras para o uso na polinização agrícola GC Venturieri, DA Alves, JK Villas-Bôas, CAL Carvalho, C Menezes, ... Contribuição e perspectivas para a biodiversidade, uso sustentável …, 2012 | 48 | 2012 |
| Miniature queens in stingless bees: basic facts and evolutionary hypotheses MF Ribeiro, T Wenseleers, PS Santos Filho, DA Alves Apidologie 37 (2), 191-206, 2006 | 45 | 2006 |
| The queen is dead—long live the workers: intraspecific parasitism by workers in the stingless bee Melipona scutellaris DA Alves, VL Imperatriz‐Fonseca, TM Francoy, PS Santos‐Filho, ... Molecular Ecology 18 (19), 4102-4111, 2009 | 44 | 2009 |
| The role of wax and resin in the nestmate recognition system of a stingless bee, Tetragonisca angustula SM Jones, JS van Zweden, C Grüter, C Menezes, DA Alves, ... Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 66 (1), 1-12, 2012 | 35 | 2012 |
| Intraspecific queen parasitism in a highly eusocial bee T Wenseleers, DA Alves, TM Francoy, J Billen, VL Imperatriz-Fonseca Biology Letters 7 (2), 173-176, 2011 | 35 | 2011 |
| Numerical investment in sex and caste by stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini): a comparative analysis P de Souza Santos-Filho, D de Araujo Alves, A Eterovic, ... Apidologie 37 (2), 207-221, 2006 | 34 | 2006 |
| Worker bees and the fate of their eggs HHW Velthuis, D Araujo Alves, VL Imperatriz-Foncesa, MJ Duchateau Proc Exp Appl Entomol 13, 97-102, 2002 | 33 | 2002 |
| The origin and evolution of queen and fertility signals in Corbiculate bees RC Oliveira, CA Oi, MMC do Nascimento, A Vollet-Neto, DA Alves, ... BMC evolutionary biology 15 (1), 254, 2015 | 26 | 2015 |
| Monogamy in large bee societies: a stingless paradox R Jaffé, FC Pioker-Hara, CF dos Santos, LR Santiago, DA Alves, ... Naturwissenschaften 101 (3), 261-264, 2014 | 26 | 2014 |
| First discovery of a rare polygyne colony in the stingless bee Melipona quadrifasciata (Apidae, Meliponini) DA Alves, C Menezes, VL Imperatriz-Fonseca, T Wenseleers Apidologie, 2011 | 26 | 2011 |
| First record of small hive beetle, Aethina tumida Murray, in South America H Al Toufailia, DA Alves, DC Bena, JMS Bento, NSA Iwanicki, AR Cline, ... Journal of Apicultural Research 56 (1), 76-80, 2017 | 25 | 2017 |
| Beekeeping practices and geographic distance, not land use, drive gene flow across tropical bees R Jaffé, N Pope, AL Acosta, DA Alves, MC Arias, P De la Rúa, ... Molecular Ecology 25 (21), 5345-5358, 2016 | 25 | 2016 |
| Production of workers, queens and males in Plebeia remota colonies (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini), a stingless bee with reproductive diapause DA Alves, VL Imperatriz-Fonseca, PS Santos-Filho Genetics and Molecular Research 8 (2), 672-683, 2009 | 22 | 2009 |
| Towards greater realism in inclusive fitness models: the case of worker reproduction in insect societies T Wenseleers, H Helanterä, DA Alves, E Dueñez-Guzmán, P Pamilo Biology letters 9 (6), 20130334, 2013 | 21 | 2013 |
| Sneaky queens in Melipona bees selectively detect and infiltrate queenless colonies A Van Oystaeyen, D Araujo Alves, R Caliari Oliveira, ... Animal Behaviour 86 (3), 603-609, 2013 | 20 | 2013 |
| Size variation in Schwarziana quadripunctata queens (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) MF Ribeiro, DA Alves Rev. Etol 3 (1), 59-65, 2001 | 20 | 2001 |
Vera Lucia Imperatriz FonsecaInstituto de Biociências da Universidade de S. Paulo; ProfessorVerified email at ib.usp.br
