Donald M. Windsor

Smithsonian Institution — United States

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

38h-index6.4kcitations118works4.62yr avg
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Research Topics

Plant and animal studies(39), Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution(30), Forest Insect Ecology and Management(29), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior(24), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control(22)

Publications118 total

Molecular phylogenetics of Neotropical chrysomeline beetles: Evidence for a constrained history of host plant use
2026Open Access
Arthropod abundances track soil fertility across a lowland tropical forest landscape
Journal of Animal Ecology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Fungal alkaloids mediate defense against bruchid beetles in field populations of an arborescent ipomoea
Journal of Chemical Ecology·2025Open Access
Symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer promote herbivory in the megadiverse leaf beetles
Current Biology·2025· 14 citedOpen Access
Inflorescence size predicts host–symbiont conflict in monoecious fig–wasp mutualisms
Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Fungal Alkaloids Mediate Defense Against Bruchid Beetles in Field Populations of an Arborescent Ipomoea
2024Open Access
Paleocene origin of a streamlined digestive symbiosis in leaf beetles
Current Biology·2024· 15 citedOpen Access
Paleocene origin of a streamlined digestive symbiosis in leaf beetles
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Variation in contact chemical cues may mediate differential predator response in the colour polymorphic tortoise beetle, <i>Chelymorpha alternans</i>
Ecological Entomology·2022· 1 cited
The leaf beetle Chelymorpha alternans propagates a plant pathogen in exchange for pupal protection
Current Biology·2022· 47 cited
A potential role for overdominance in the maintenance of colour variation in the Neotropical tortoise beetle, <i>Chelymorpha alternans</i>
Journal of Evolutionary Biology·2021· 3 citedOpen Access
Author response for "A potential role for overdominance in the maintenance of color variation in the Neotropical tortoise beetle, Chelymorpha alternans"
2021Open Access
Author response for "A potential role for overdominance in the maintenance of color variation in the Neotropical tortoise beetle, Chelymorpha alternans"
2021Open Access
Symbiont Digestive Range Reflects Host Plant Breadth in Herbivorous Beetles
Current Biology·2020· 96 citedOpen Access
Molecular systematics reveals the origins of subsociality in tortoise beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae)
Systematic Entomology·2020· 10 cited
Review of &lt;i&gt;Scolia&lt;/i&gt; (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae) from Central America, including seasonal flight activity in &lt;i&gt;Scolia guttata&lt;/i&gt;
Acta Biológica Colombiana·2020· 5 citedOpen Access
Revisión de Scolia (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae) para América Central, incluyendo actividad de vuelo estacional en Scolia guttata
Acta Biológica Colombiana·2020Open Access
Seasonal and annual variation in the abundance of Ephuta (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) in Panama
Revista de Biología Tropical·2020· 5 citedOpen Access
Variation in Host Plant Usage and Diet Breadth Predict Sibling Preference and Performance in the Neotropical Tortoise Beetle Chelymorpha alternans (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)
Environmental Entomology·2019· 8 citedOpen Access
Inheritance, distribution and genetic differentiation of a color polymorphism in Panamanian populations of the tortoise beetle, Chelymorpha alternans (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
Heredity·2018· 11 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Edward Allen Herre(5), John H. Werren(4), Egbert Giles Leigh(3), A. Stanley Rand(3), Jacques M. Pasteéls(3), Peter Wilf(2), Conrad C. Labandeira(2), Jean Pol Vigneron(2), Marie Rassart(2), Carlos A. Machado(2), Sally C. Levings(2), Douglas W. Morrison(2), Miguel A. Estribi(2), Francis E. Putz(2), Hassan Salem(2), Aileen Berasategui(2), Arnaud Termonia(2), Michael Kaspari(2), John Pickering(2), Viterbo Rodríguez(2)