Marlene Zuk

18.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
188 papers, 13.2k citations indexed

About

Marlene Zuk is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marlene Zuk has authored 188 papers receiving a total of 13.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 147 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 77 papers in Genetics and 24 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Marlene Zuk's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (128 papers), Plant and animal studies (97 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (53 papers). Marlene Zuk is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (128 papers), Plant and animal studies (97 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (53 papers). Marlene Zuk collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Marlene Zuk's co-authors include W D Hamilton, Nathan W. Bailey, Kurt A. McKean, Gita R. Kolluru, Andrew M. Stoehr, John T. Rotenberry, Leigh W. Simmons, Torgeir S. Johnsen, J. David Ligon and Randy Thornhill and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Marlene Zuk

181 papers receiving 12.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Heritable True Fitness and Bright Birds: A Role for Parasites?

1982 2.9k citations Marlene Zuk et al. profile →
Sex differences in parasite infections: Patterns and processes

1996 771 citations Marlene Zuk et al. profile →
Sexual selection and speciation

2001 724 citations Marlene Zuk et al. profile →
Exploitation of Sexual Signals by Predators and Parasitoids

1998 660 citations Marlene Zuk et al. profile →
Immune Defense and Host Life History

2002 636 citations Marlene Zuk et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Marlene Zuk	9.8k	4.2k	3.6k	1.6k	1.6k	188	13.2k
T. R. Birkhead	13.1k 1.3×	4.7k 1.1×	8.2k 2.3×	723 0.5×	807 0.5×	293	17.4k
Malte Andersson	11.7k 1.2×	3.6k 0.9×	6.4k 1.8×	763 0.5×	617 0.4×	97	15.1k
Geoffrey E. Hill	11.5k 1.2×	2.4k 0.6×	7.3k 2.0×	611 0.4×	2.3k 1.5×	385	17.1k
Ben C. Sheldon	16.6k 1.7×	6.8k 1.6×	12.9k 3.6×	1.2k 0.8×	3.1k 2.0×	294	26.5k
Terry Burke	11.1k 1.1×	8.6k 2.0×	9.8k 2.7×	656 0.4×	814 0.5×	394	20.9k
Niels J. Dingemanse	13.3k 1.4×	3.1k 0.7×	6.7k 1.9×	640 0.4×	507 0.3×	166	17.3k
Rauno V. Alatalo	8.0k 0.8×	2.5k 0.6×	5.1k 1.4×	498 0.3×	538 0.3×	167	10.3k
Denis Réale	10.8k 1.1×	3.5k 0.8×	7.0k 1.9×	626 0.4×	375 0.2×	161	16.1k
Ian P. F. Owens	7.9k 0.8×	2.9k 0.7×	7.6k 2.1×	410 0.3×	923 0.6×	100	14.2k
Daniel Sol	7.1k 0.7×	1.6k 0.4×	5.5k 1.5×	716 0.5×	606 0.4×	128	12.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zuk, Marlene, et al.. (2025). Lack of perceived sperm competition risk increases post-copulatory song in Pacific field crickets. Behavioral Ecology. 36(4). 1 indexed citations

Zuk, Marlene, et al.. (2025). Stable directional sexual selection and repeatable choosiness for song preference in the Pacific field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus. Evolution. 79(7). 1216–1226.

Richardson, Jon, Rocío Fernández Alés, & Marlene Zuk. (2025). Condition Does Not Alter Responsiveness to Mating Signals in Female Pacific Field Crickets. Journal of Insect Behavior. 38(2). 1 indexed citations

Richardson, Jon, et al.. (2024). Male crickets in poor condition engage in less same-sex sexual behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(40). e2408811121–e2408811121. 2 indexed citations

Richardson, Jon & Marlene Zuk. (2023). Rethinking same-sex sexual behaviour: male field crickets have broad mating filters. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(1997). 20230002–20230002. 8 indexed citations

Geissmann, Quentin, et al.. (2023). Machine learning reveals singing rhythms of male Pacific field crickets are clock controlled. Behavioral Ecology. 35(1). arad098–arad098. 1 indexed citations

Richardson, Jon & Marlene Zuk. (2022). Unlike a virgin: a meta-analytical review of female mating status in studies of female mate choice. Behavioral Ecology. 34(2). 165–182. 16 indexed citations

Richardson, Jon, Justa L. Heinen‐Kay, & Marlene Zuk. (2021). Sex‐specific associations between life‐history traits and a novel reproductive polymorphism in the Pacific field cricket. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 34(3). 549–557. 8 indexed citations

Zuk, Marlene. (2021). Sex differences, sexual selection, and gamete size: a comment on Shuker and Kvarnemo. Behavioral Ecology. 32(5). 800–801. 3 indexed citations

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Heinen‐Kay, Justa L., Adam D. Kay, & Marlene Zuk. (2021). How urbanization affects sexual communication. Ecology and Evolution. 11(24). 17625–17650. 15 indexed citations

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Heinen‐Kay, Justa L., et al.. (2020). Sexual signal loss, pleiotropy, and maintenance of a male reproductive polymorphism in crickets. Evolution. 74(5). 1002–1009. 7 indexed citations

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Heinen‐Kay, Justa L., et al.. (2019). Obligately silent males sire more offspring than singers in a rapidly evolving cricket population. Biology Letters. 15(7). 20190198–20190198. 9 indexed citations

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Atshabar, Bakyt B., et al.. (2019). Living with plague: Lessons from the Soviet Union’s antiplague system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(19). 9155–9163. 26 indexed citations

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Heinen‐Kay, Justa L., et al.. (2019). Direct and indirect effects of sexual signal loss on female reproduction in the Pacific field cricket (Teleogryllus oceanicus). Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 32(12). 1382–1390. 13 indexed citations

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Gray, David A., et al.. (2019). Molecular biogeography and host relations of a parasitoid fly. Ecology and Evolution. 9(19). 11476–11493. 11 indexed citations

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Pascoal, Sónia, Xuan Liu, Yongxiang Fang, et al.. (2018). Increased socially mediated plasticity in gene expression accompanies rapid adaptive evolution. Ecology Letters. 21(4). 546–556. 22 indexed citations

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Heinen‐Kay, Justa L., et al.. (2018). Limited flexibility in female Pacific field cricket (Teleogryllus oceanicus) exploratory behaviors in response to perceived social environment. Ethology. 124(9). 650–656. 4 indexed citations

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Bailey, Nathan W., Brian Gray, & Marlene Zuk. (2008). Does immunity vary with population density in wild populations of Mormon crickets. Evolutionary ecology research. 10(4). 599–610. 17 indexed citations

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Zuk, Marlene, John T. Rotenberry, & Robin M. Tinghitella. (2006). Silent night: adaptive disappearance of a sexual signal in a parasitized population of field crickets. Biology Letters. 2(4). 521–524. 302 indexed citations

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Gray, David A., et al.. (2006). Behavioural specialization among populations of the acoustically orienting parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea utilizing different cricket species as hosts. Animal Behaviour. 73(1). 99–104. 37 indexed citations

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