| Behavioural environments and niche construction: the evolution of dim‐light foraging in bees WT Wcislo, SM Tierney Biological Reviews 84 (1), 19-37, 2009 | 100 | 2009 |
| Molecular phylogenetics of the exoneurine allodapine bees reveal an ancient and puzzling dispersal from Africa to Australia MP Schwarz, S Fuller, SM Tierney, SJB Cooper Systematic Biology 55 (1), 31-45, 2006 | 82 | 2006 |
| Consequences of evolutionary transitions in changing photic environments SM Tierney, M Friedrich, WF Humphreys, TM Jones, EJ Warrant, ... Austral Entomology 56 (1), 23-46, 2017 | 77 | 2017 |
| Phylogenetics of the allodapine bee genus Braunsapis: historical biogeography and long‐range dispersal over water S Fuller, M Schwarz, S Tierney Journal of Biogeography 32 (12), 2135-2144, 2005 | 76 | 2005 |
| The evolution of eusociality in allodapine bees: workers began by waiting MP Schwarz, SM Tierney, SM Rehan, LB Chenoweth, SJB Cooper Biology Letters 7 (2), 277-280, 2011 | 64 | 2011 |
| Molecular phylogenetics of the allodapine bee genus Braunsapis: A–T bias and heterogeneous substitution parameters MP Schwarz, SM Tierney, SJB Cooper, NJ Bull Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 32 (1), 110-122, 2004 | 57 | 2004 |
| Social evolution and casteless societies: needs for new terminology and a new evolutionary focus RM Dew, SM Tierney, MP Schwarz Insectes Sociaux 63, 5-14, 2016 | 52 | 2016 |
| Opsin transcripts of predatory diving beetles: a comparison of surface and subterranean photic niches SM Tierney, SJB Cooper, KM Saint, T Bertozzi, J Hyde, WF Humphreys, ... Royal Society open science 2 (1), 140386, 2015 | 48 | 2015 |
| The evolution of communal behavior in bees and wasps: an alternative to eusociality WT Wcislo, SM Tierney Organization of insect societies: from genome to sociocomplexity, 148-169, 2009 | 41 | 2009 |
| Origins of social parasitism: the importance of divergence ages in phylogenetic studies JA Smith, SM Tierney, YC Park, S Fuller, MP Schwarz Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43 (3), 1131-1137, 2007 | 41 | 2007 |
| Social complexity in bees is not sufficient to explain lack of reversions to solitary living over long time scales LB Chenoweth, SM Tierney, JA Smith, SJB Cooper, MP Schwarz BMC Evolutionary Biology 7, 1-9, 2007 | 38 | 2007 |
| Phylogenetics of allodapine bees: a review of social evolution, parasitism and biogeography SM Tierney, JA Smith, L Chenoweth, MP Schwarz Apidologie 39 (1), 3-15, 2008 | 37 | 2008 |
| Efficiency and effectiveness of native bees and honey bees as pollinators of apples in New South Wales orchards OM Bernauer, SM Tierney, JM Cook Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 337, 108063, 2022 | 36 | 2022 |
| Repeated origins of social parasitism in allodapine bees indicate that the weak form of Emery's rule is widespread, yet sympatric speciation remains highly problematic JA Smith, LB Chenoweth, SM Tierney, MP Schwarz Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 109 (2), 320-331, 2013 | 35 | 2013 |
| The biology of Brevineura froggatti and phylogenetic conservatism in Australian allodapine bees (Apidae, Allodapini) SM Tierney, AL Cronin, N Loussert, MP Schwarz Insectes Sociaux 47, 96-97, 2000 | 32 | 2000 |
| Photic niche invasions: phylogenetic history of the dim-light foraging augochlorine bees (Halictidae) SM Tierney, O Sanjur, GG Grajales, LM Santos, E Bermingham, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1729), 794-803, 2012 | 31 | 2012 |
| Nesting biology and social behavior of Xenochlora bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Augochlorini) from Perú SM Tierney, T Gonzales-Ojeda, WT Wcislo Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 81 (1), 61-72, 2008 | 29 | 2008 |
| Social behaviour in an Australian allodapine bee Exoneura (Brevineura) xanthoclypeata (Hymenoptera: Apidae) SM Tierney, MP Schwarz, M Adams Australian Journal of Zoology 45 (4), 385-398, 1997 | 29 | 1997 |
| The final frontier: ecological and evolutionary dynamics of a global parasite invasion NC Chapman, T Colin, J Cook, CRB Da Silva, R Gloag, K Hogendoorn, ... Biology Letters 19 (5), 20220589, 2023 | 27 | 2023 |
| Sociality in the phylogenetically basal allodapine bee genus Macrogalea (Apidae: Xylocopinae): implications for social evolution in the tribe Allodapini SM TIERNEY, MP Schwarz, T Neville, PM Schwarz Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 76 (2), 211-224, 2002 | 27 | 2002 |
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