Michael A. Cant

8.0k total citations
142 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Michael A. Cant is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael A. Cant has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 63 papers in Ecology and 42 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Michael A. Cant's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (84 papers), Plant and animal studies (53 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (37 papers). Michael A. Cant is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (84 papers), Plant and animal studies (53 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (37 papers). Michael A. Cant collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Michael A. Cant's co-authors include Rufus A. Johnstone, Jeremy Field, Hazel J. Nichols, Emma Vitikainen, Darren P. Croft, Daniel W. Franks, Sarah J. Hodge, Francis Mwanguhya, Faye J. Thompson and Kenneth C. Balcomb and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Michael A. Cant

136 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael A. Cant United Kingdom	42	3.1k	1.9k	1.3k	1.1k	981	142	4.9k
Andrew F. Russell United Kingdom	44	4.3k 1.4×	2.8k 1.5×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	795 0.8×	120	6.5k
Max Wolf Germany	24	3.6k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	828 0.7×	663 0.7×	44	5.2k
Sasha R. X. Dall United Kingdom	34	4.1k 1.3×	2.0k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	911 0.8×	759 0.8×	70	5.8k
Susanne Shultz United Kingdom	34	1.7k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	588 0.4×	2.5k 2.2×	665 0.7×	96	5.6k
G. Sander van Doorn Netherlands	30	2.6k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	1.9k 1.5×	370 0.3×	588 0.6×	49	4.6k
Patricia Adair Gowaty United States	39	2.7k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	436 0.4×	327 0.3×	93	4.2k
M. Justin O’Riain South Africa	36	1.9k 0.6×	2.6k 1.4×	1.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	473 0.5×	150	4.7k
Nick J. Royle United Kingdom	33	2.6k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	730 0.6×	414 0.4×	341 0.3×	64	3.7k
J. Chadwick Johnson United States	18	4.0k 1.3×	1.5k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	756 0.7×	279 0.3×	36	5.0k
Dustin R. Rubenstein United States	35	2.7k 0.9×	2.6k 1.4×	1.3k 1.0×	565 0.5×	356 0.4×	113	5.1k

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Nichols, Hazel J., et al.. (2025). Sex‐Dependent Influence of Major Histocompatibility Complex Diversity on Fitness in a Social Mammal. Molecular Ecology. 34(18). e70058–e70058.

Cant, Michael A., et al.. (2025). Flap-necked chameleons change colour to match their background. Biology Letters. 21(8). 20250134–20250134. 1 indexed citations

Gates, Elena, et al.. (2025). A meta‐analytic review of the relationship between racial discrimination and alcohol and other drug use outcomes in minoritised racial/ethnic groups. Addiction. 120(12). 2371–2403.

Arbuckle, Kevin, et al.. (2025). Reproduction is driven by seasonal environmental variation in an equatorial mammal, the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo). Behavioral Ecology. 36(2). araf007–araf007. 2 indexed citations

Cant, Michael A., et al.. (2023). Us, them, and the others: Testing for discrimination amongst outgroups in a single‐piece nesting termite,Zootermopsis angusticollis. Ecology and Evolution. 13(3). e9901–e9901. 1 indexed citations

Cant, Michael A., et al.. (2023). Defence against the intergenerational cost of reproduction in males: oxidative shielding of the germline. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 99(1). 70–84. 2 indexed citations

Vitikainen, Emma, Harry H. Marshall, Faye J. Thompson, et al.. (2023). The social formation of fitness: lifetime consequences of prenatal nutrition and postnatal care in a wild mammal population. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1883). 20220309–20220309. 5 indexed citations

Hedlund, Johanna, et al.. (2022). The evolution of predator avoidance in cephalopods: A case of brain over brawn?. Frontiers in Marine Science. 9. 9 indexed citations

Nichols, Hazel J., Kevin Arbuckle, Jennifer L. Sanderson, et al.. (2021). A double pedigree reveals genetic but not cultural inheritance of cooperative personalities in wild banded mongooses. Ecology Letters. 24(9). 1966–1975. 9 indexed citations

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Marshall, Harry H., Rufus A. Johnstone, Faye J. Thompson, et al.. (2021). A veil of ignorance can promote fairness in a mammal society. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3717–3717. 8 indexed citations

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Sheppard, Catherine, et al.. (2021). Individual foraging specialization in group-living species. Animal Behaviour. 182. 285–294. 9 indexed citations

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Wells, David A., Michael A. Cant, Faye J. Thompson, et al.. (2020). Extra-group paternity varies with proxies of relatedness in a social mammal with high inbreeding risk. Behavioral Ecology. 32(1). 94–104. 2 indexed citations

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Marshall, Harry H., Richard Inger, Andrew L. Jackson, et al.. (2019). Stable isotopes are quantitative indicators of trophic niche. Ecology Letters. 22(11). 1990–1992. 33 indexed citations

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Marshall, Harry H., David Griffiths, Francis Mwanguhya, et al.. (2018). Data collection and storage in long-term ecological and evolutionary studies: The Mongoose 2000 system. PLoS ONE. 13(1). e0190740–e0190740. 6 indexed citations

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Vitikainen, Emma, Harry H. Marshall, Faye J. Thompson, et al.. (2017). Biased escorts: offspring sex, not relatedness explains alloparental care patterns in a cooperative breeder. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1854). 20162384–20162384. 21 indexed citations

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Thompson, Faye J., Michael A. Cant, Harry H. Marshall, et al.. (2017). Explaining negative kin discrimination in a cooperative mammal society. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(20). 5207–5212. 51 indexed citations

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Vitikainen, Emma, et al.. (2016). Lack of aggression and apparent altruism towards intruders in a primitive termite. Royal Society Open Science. 3(11). 160682–160682. 4 indexed citations

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Thompson, Faye J., Harry H. Marshall, Jennifer L. Sanderson, et al.. (2016). Reproductive competition triggers mass eviction in cooperative banded mongooses. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1826). 20152607–20152607. 28 indexed citations

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Cant, Michael A., Hazel J. Nichols, Rufus A. Johnstone, & Sarah J. Hodge. (2013). Policing of reproduction by hidden threats in a cooperative mammal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(1). 326–330. 38 indexed citations

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Field, Jeremy & Michael A. Cant. (2006). Helping effort in primitively eusocial wasps. Annales Zoologici Fennici. 43. 481–487. 8 indexed citations

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