Franks, N. R.; Bossert, W. H. 1983. The influence of swarm raiding army ants on the patchiness and diversity of a tropical leaf litter ant community. Pp. 151-163 in: Sutton, S. L.; Whitmore, T. C.; Chadwick, A. C. (eds.) 1983. Tropical rain forest: ecology and management. Oxford: Blackwell, xii + 498 pp.

Franks, N. R.; Scovell, E. 1983. Dominance and reproductive success among slave-making worker ants. Nature (London) 304:724-725.

Burton, J. L.; Franks, N. R. 1985. The foraging ecology of the army ant Eciton rapax: an ergonomic enigma? Ecological Entomology 10:131-141.

Allies, A. B.; Bourke, A. F. G.; Franks, N. R. 1986. Propaganda substances in the cuckoo ant Leptothorax kutteri and the slave-maker Harpagoxenus sublaevis. Journal of Chemical Ecology 12:1285-1293.

Bourke, A. F. G.; Franks, N. R. 1987. Evolution of social parasites in leptothoracine ants. Pp. 37-38 in: Eder, J.; Rembold, H. (eds.) 1987. Chemistry and biology of social insects. München: Verlag J. Peperny, xxxv + 757 pp.

Franks, N. R.; Hölldobler, B. 1987. Sexual competition during colony reproduction in army ants. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 30:229-243.

Franks, N. R.; Norris, P. J. 1987. Constraints on the division of labour in ants: D'Arcy Thompson's cartesian transformations applied to worker polymorphism. Pp. 253-270 in: Pasteels, J. M.; Deneubourg, J.-L. (eds.) 1987. From individual to collective behavior in social insects. (Experientia: Supplementum, Volume 54). Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 433 pp.

Sudd, J. H.; Franks, N. R. 1987. The behavioural ecology of ants. New York: Chapman & Hall, x + 206 pp.

Franks, N. R. 1990. [Review of: Hölldobler, B., Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.]. Science (Washington, D. C.) 248:897-898.

Franks, N. R.; Bourke, A. F. G. 1990. The evolution of inquiline ant parasites: the interspecific versus the intraspecific hypothesis. Pp. 149-150 in: Veeresh, G. K.; Mallik, B.; Viraktamath, C. A. (eds.) 1990. Social insects and the environment. Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of IUSSI, 1990. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., xxxi + 765 pp.

Franks, N. R.; Ireland, B.; Bourke, A. F. G. 1990. Conflicts, social economics and life history strategies in ants. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 27:175-181.

Bourke, A. F. G.; Franks, N. R. 1991. Alternative adaptations, sympatric speciation and the evolution of parasitic, inquiline ants. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 43:157-178.

Franks, N. R.; Partridge, L. W. 1993. Lanchester battles and the evolution of combat in ants. Animal Behavior 45:197-199.

Bourke, A. F. G.; Franks, N. R. 1995. Social evolution in ants. Princeton: Princeton University Press, xiii + 529 pp.

Schöning, C.; Kinuthia, W.; Franks, N. R. 2005. Evolution of allometries in the worker caste of Dorylus army ants. Oikos 110:231-240. PDF