| Choosing an appropriate index to construct dominance hierarchies in animal societies: a comparison of three indices A Bang, S Deshpande, A Sumana, R Gadagkar Animal Behaviour 79 (3), 631-636, 2010 | 103 | 2010 |
| Diploid males and their triploid offspring in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus AE Liebert, A Sumana, PT Starks Biology Letters 1 (2), 200-203, 2005 | 51 | 2005 |
| Leaders follow leaders to reunite the colony: relocation dynamics of an Indian queenless ant in its natural habitat R Kaur, K Anoop, A Sumana Animal Behaviour 83 (6), 1345-1353, 2012 | 50 | 2012 |
| Wasp who would be queen: a comparative study of two primitively eusocial species SA Deshpande, A Sumana, M Surbeck, R Gadagkar Current Science, 332-336, 2006 | 44 | 2006 |
| Ropalidia marginata–a primitively eusocial wasp society headed by behaviourally non-dominant queens A Sumana, R Gadagkar Current Science, 1464-1468, 2003 | 43 | 2003 |
| A comparative social network analysis of wasp colonies and classrooms: Linking network structure to functioning A Bhadra, F Jordan, A Sumana, SA Deshpande, R Gadagkar ecological complexity 6 (1), 48-55, 2009 | 39 | 2009 |
| Dual response to nest flooding during monsoon in an Indian ant S Kolay, S Annagiri Scientific Reports 5 (1), 13716, 2015 | 35 | 2015 |
| How do workers of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata detect the presence of their queens? A Bhadra, PL Iyer, A Sumana, SA Deshpande, S Ghosh, R Gadagkar Journal of Theoretical Biology 246 (3), 574-582, 2007 | 32 | 2007 |
| Nest hydrocarbons as cues for philopatry in a paper wasp A Sumana, AE Liebert, AS Berry, GT Switz, CM Orians, PT Starks Ethology 111 (5), 469-477, 2005 | 31 | 2005 |
| Characterization of recruitment through tandem running in an Indian queenless ant Diacamma indicum R Kaur, J Joseph, K Anoop, A Sumana Royal Society open science 4 (1), 160476, 2017 | 30 | 2017 |
| Grooming Patterns in the Primitively Eusocial Wasp Polistes dominulus A Sumana, PT Starks Ethology 110 (10), 825-833, 2004 | 30 | 2004 |
| Workers of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata do not perceive their queen across a wire mesh partition A Sumana, SA Deshpande, A Bhadra, R Gadagkar Journal of Ethology 26, 207-212, 2008 | 26 | 2008 |
| The function of dart behavior in the paper wasp, Polistes fuscatus A Sumana, PT Starks Naturwissenschaften 91, 220-223, 2004 | 26 | 2004 |
| Key relocation leaders in an Indian queenless ant A Sumana, C Sona Behavioural processes 97, 84-89, 2013 | 25 | 2013 |
| Opportunistic brood theft in the context of colony relocation in an Indian queenless ant B Paul, M Paul, S Annagiri Scientific reports 6 (1), 36166, 2016 | 22 | 2016 |
| The structure of dominance hierarchies in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata A Sumana, R Gadagkar Ethology Ecology & Evolution 13 (3), 273-281, 2001 | 21 | 2001 |
| Coupled adult-brood transport augments relocation in the Indian queenless ant Diacamma indicum R Kaur, A Sumana Insectes sociaux 61, 141-143, 2014 | 20 | 2014 |
| Social insect colony as a biological regulatory system: modelling information flow in dominance networks AK Nandi, A Sumana, K Bhattacharya Journal of The Royal Society Interface 11 (101), 20140951, 2014 | 19 | 2014 |
| Tight knit under stress: colony resilience to the loss of tandem leaders during relocation in an Indian ant S Kolay, S Annagiri Royal Society Open Science 2 (9), 150104, 2015 | 13 | 2015 |
| Deciphering a survival strategy during the interspecific competition between Bacillus cereus MSM-S1 and Pseudomonas sp. MSM-M1 B Chakraborty, A Mallick, S Annagiri, S Sengupta, TK Sengupta Royal Society Open Science 3 (11), 160438, 2016 | 12 | 2016 |
Philip T StarksAssociate Professor of Biology, Tufts UniversityVerified email at tufts.edu
