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(Reviewed journals indicated with an asterisk)
Singer, F., Hagen, J. and Kugler, C. 2003 Response to critic of Teaching Statistical Thinking in Introductory Biology. Journal of College Science Teaching. 23:20-21.
*Kugler, C, Hagen, J., and Singer, F. 2003. Teaching Statistical Thinking in Introductory Biology. Journal of College Science Teaching. 32(7):434-439.
*Kugler, C. 2002 Darwin's Theory, Mendel's Laws: Labels and the Teaching of Evolution. The American Biology Teacher. 64(5):341-351.
*Kugler, C. 1998 Stings of Some Ants of Lordomyrma and Mayriella. Insecta Mundi 11(3-4):193-199.
*Kugler, C. 1994 Revision of the Ant Genus Rogeria (Hym. Formicidae) with Descriptions of the Sting Apparatus. Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 3:17-89.
Kugler, C. (Editor )1994 New approaches to Biology Teaching. Proceedings of the Virginia Association for Biological Education March 25-26, 1994, Printed by Radford University, Radford, VA, 65 pp.
Kugler, C. 1994 Skeletal Anatomy and the Science of Paleontology. In Kugler, C. (Ed.) New Approaches to Biology Teaching. Proceedings of the Virginia Association for Biological Education March 25-26, 1994, Radford University, Radford, VA, 65 pp.
* Kugler, C. 1992 Stings of Ants of the Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche 99(1):103-115.
* Kugler, C. 1991 Stings of the ants of the Tribe Ectatommini (Formicidae: Ponerinae). Insecta Mundi 5(3-4): 152-166.
Kugler, C. 1990 The sting apparatus and phylogeny of the ants. pp. 315-316 In Veeresh, G. K., B. Mallik, and C. A. Viraktamath, (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International Congress-IUSSI (International Union for the Study of Social Insects). Oxford and IBH Publishing, New Delhi. 765 pp.
Kugler, C. (contributing author) In Stroup, D. J. and C. B. Carpenter (eds.) 1989 Teaching and Assessing Critical Thinking in the Natural Sciences: A Critical Thinking Network in Science. In L. W. Crow (ed.) Enhancing Critical Thinking in the Sciences. Society for College Science Teachers pp. 29-34.
*Kugler, C. 1986 Stings of Ants of the Tribe Pheidologetini (Myrmicinae). Insecta Mundi 1(4): 221-230.
*Kugler, C. 1984 Ecology of the ant Pogonomyrmex mayri: Foraging and competition. Biotropica 16: 227-234.
*Kugler, C. and Hincapié , M. C 1984 Ecology of the ant Pogonomyrmex mayri: Distribution, Abundance, Nest Structure, and Diet. Biotropica 15(3):190-198.
Gourley, E. and Kugler, C. 1984-2003 Laboratory Exercises in General Biology 102. Burgess Publishing Company, Minneapolis (Editions 1-7) and Pearson Custom Publishing, Boston (Editions 8-10), 130 pp.
Kugler, C. and Gourley, E. 1984-2003 Laboratory Exercises in General Biology 101. Burgess Publishing Company, Minneapolis (Editions 1-7) and Pearson Custom Publishing, Boston (Editions 8-10), 107 pp.
Kugler, C. 1983 Science, Writing and Chicken Soup, pp. 74-83 In Working Papers on Writing and Learning. W. Self and R. Murphy, (eds.), Radford Univ. Press. 90 pp.
*Kugler, C. and Brown, W. L. Jr. 1982 Revisionary and other studies on the ant genus Ectatomma, including the descriptions of two new species. Search: Agriculture Ithaca, N. Y. Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta. No 24, 8 pp.
Kugler, C. 1982 Apterygota. In Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. Parker, S. (ed.), 2 vol., McGraw-Hill, New York. pp. 326-330.
Gourley, E., Kugler, C. and Maloney, M. 1981 Laboratory Exercises in General Biology 113. Burgess Publishing Company, Minneapolis, 51 pp.
*Kugler, C. 1980 The sting apparatus in the primitive ants Nothomyrmecia and Myrmecia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 19:263-267.
*Evans, H. E., Brown, W. L. Jr. and Kugler, C. 1980 . Rediscovery of Scolebythus madecassus, with a description of the male and of the female sting apparatus (Hymenoptera: Scolebythidae). Psyche 86:45-51.
*Kugler, C. 1980 Odontomachus cornutus rediscovered (Hym., Form., Ponerinae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 53:225-229.
*Kugler, C. 1979 Alarm and defense: A function for the pygidial glands of the myrmicine ant Pheidole biconstricta. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 72:532-536.
*Kugler, C. 1979 Evolution of the myrmicine sting apparatus. Evolution 33:117-130.
*Kugler, C. 1979 Further studies of the myrmicine sting apparatus: Eutetramorium, Oxyopomyrmex, and Terataner (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Psyche 85:255-263.
*Kugler, C. 1979 Description of the ergatoid queen of Pogonomyrmex mayri with notes on the worker and male (Hym., Formicidae). Psyche 85:169-182.
*Kugler, C. 1978 A comparative study of the myrmicine sting apparatus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 20:413-548.
*Kugler, C. 1976 Pygidial glands in the myrmicine ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Insectes Sociaux 25:267-274.
*Kugler, C. 1975 A new specimen of Platythyrea (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Costa Rica. Psyche 83:216-221.