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Below are select publications from the lab in the last 5 years that highlight our research themes.

Publications marked with an asterisk (*) indicate publications in which a BEE Lab student (Honours or PhD) is first-author.

 

  • *Garcia Bulle Bueno, F., Garcia Bulle Bueno, B, Buchmann, G., Heard, T., Latty, T., Hosoi, A., Oldroyd, B., Gloag, R. (2022) Males are capable of long distance dispersal in a social bee. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, [More Information]
  • *Sun, M., Chapman, N., Raffiudin, R., Putra, R., Roberts, J., Widjaya, C., Buchmann, G., Holmes, M., Gloag, R., Loss of mitochondrial diversity in invasive populations of Asian honey bees (Apis cerana) in the Austral-Pacific. Austral Entomology [More Information]
  • *Norton, A., Remnant, E., Tom, J., Buchmann, G., Blacquiere, T., Beekman, M. (2021). Adaptation to vector-based transmission in a honeybee virus. Journal of Animal Ecology, 90(10), 2254-2267. [More Information]
  • *Hagan, T., Gloag, R. (2021). Founder effects on sex determination systems in invasive social insects. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 46, 31-38. [More Information]
  • *Utaipanon, P., Schaerf, T., Chapman, N., Holmes, M., Oldroyd, B. (2021). Using trapped drones to assess the density of honey bee colonies: a simulation and empirical study to evaluate the accuracy of the method. Ecological Entomology, 46(1), 128-137. [More Information]
  • Remnant, E., Baty, J., Bulgarella, M., Dobelmann, J., Quinn, O., Gruber, M., Lester, P. (2021). A diverse viral community from predatory wasps in their native and invaded range, with a new virus infectious to honey bees. Viruses, 13(8), 1431. [More Information]
  • Cardoso-Junior, C., Yagound, B., Ronai, I., Remnant, E., Hartfelder, K., Oldroyd, B. (2021). DNA methylation is not a driver of gene expression reprogramming in young honey bee workers. Molecular Ecology, 30(19), 4804-4818. [More Information]
  • Yagound, B., Dogantzis, K., Zayed, A., Lim, J., Broekhuyse, P., Remnant, E., Beekman, M., Allsopp, M., Aamidor, S., Dim, O., Buchmann, G., Oldroyd, B. (2020). A Single Gene Causes Thelytokous Parthenogenesis, the Defining Feature of the Cape Honeybee Apis mellifera capensis. Current Biology, 30(12), 2248-2259.e6. [More Information]
  • Oldroyd, B., Yagound, B., Allsopp, M., Holmes, M., Buchmann, G., Zayed, A., Beekman, M. (2021). Adaptive, caste-specific changes to recombination rates in a thelytokous honeybee population. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1952), 20210729. [More Information]
  • *Ding, G., Hasselmann, M., Huang, J., Roberts, J., Oldroyd, B., Gloag, R. (2021). Global allele polymorphism indicates a high rate of allele genesis at a locus under balancing selection. Heredity, 126(1), 163-177. [More Information]
  • Chapman, NC, Frost, EA (2021a) Plan Bee: Beekeeper and queen bee breeder surveys 2020. (AgriFutures Australia: Wagga Wagga). [More Information]
  • Chapman, N, Frost, E (2021b) Plan Bee Breeding Manual. (AgriFutures Australia: Wagga Wagga). [More Information]
  • Frost, EA, Chapman, NC, Banks, RG, Hermesch, S (2021) Breeding for improved fertility of honey bees. In ‘Breeding Focus 2021 – Improving Reproduction’, ed S Hermesch, S Dominik, pp. 97-110. (Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit: Armidale). [More Information]
  • Banks, RG, Frost, E, Chapman, N, Boerner, V, Walkom, S, Ferdosi, M (2020) Progressing implementation of genetic selection in Australian honey bees. (AgriFutures Australia: Wagga Wagga). [More Information]
  • *Garcia Bulle Bueno, F., Gloag, R., Latty, T., Ronai, I. (2020). Irreversible sterility of workers and high-volume egg production by queens in the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria. Journal of Experimental Biology, 223, jeb230599. [More Information]
  • *Norton, A., Remnant, E., Buchmann, G., Beekman, M. (2020). Accumulation and competition amongst deformed wing virus genotypes in naive Australian honeybees provides insight into the increasing global prevalence of genotype B. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, 1-14. [More Information]
  • *Smith, N., Yagound, B., Remnant, E., Foster, C., Buchmann, G., Allsopp, M., Kent, C., Zayed, A., Rose, S., Lo, K., Ashe, A., Beekman, M., Oldroyd, B., et al (2020). Paternally-biased gene expression follows kin-selected predictions in female honey bee embryos. Molecular Ecology, 29(8), 1523-1533. [More Information]
  • Harrop, T., Guhlin, J., McLaughlin, G., Permina, E., Stockwell, P., Gilligan, J., Le Lec, M., Gruber, M., Quinn, O., Lovegrove, M., Remnant, E., et al (2020). High-Quality assemblies for three invasive social wasps from the vespula genus. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 10(10), 3479-3488. [More Information]
  • Yagound, B., Remnant, E., Buchmann, G., Oldroyd, B. (2020). Intergenerational transfer of DNA methylation marks in the honey bee. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(51), 32519-32527. [More Information]
  • *Aamidor, S., Allsopp, M., Reid, R., Beekman, M., Buchmann, G., Wossler, T., Oldroyd, B. (2020). What mechanistic factors affect thelytokous parthenogenesis in Apis mellifera caponises queens? Apidologie, 51(3), 329-341. [More Information]
  • Beekman, M., Oldroyd, B. (2019). Conflict and major transitions – why we need true queens. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 34, 73-79. [More Information]
  • Thorogood, R., Spottiswoode, C., Portugal, S., Gloag, R. (2019). The coevolutionary biology of brood parasitism: a call for integration. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374(1769), 1-7. [More Information]
  • Gloag, R., Beekman, M. (2019). The brood parasite’s guide to inclusive fitness theory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374(1769), 1-7. [More Information]
  • Gloag, R., Christie, J., Ding, G., Stephens, R., Buchmann, G., Oldroyd, B. (2019). Workers’ sons rescue genetic diversity at the sex locus in an invasive honey bee population. Molecular Ecology, 28(7), 1585-1592. [More Information]
  • Remnant, E., Mather, N., Gillard, T., Yagound, B., Beekman, M. (2019). Direct transmission by injection affects competition among RNA viruses in honeybees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1895), 1-9. [More Information]
  • Beekman, M., Thompson, M., Jusup, M. (2019). Thermodynamic constraints and the evolution of parental provisioning in vertebrates. Behavioral Ecology, 30(3), 583-591. [More Information]
  • Chapman, N., Sheng, J., Lim, J., Malfroy, S., Harpur, B., Zayed, A., Allsopp, M., Rinderer, T., Roberts, J., Remnant, E., Oldroyd, B. (2019). Genetic origins of honey bees (Apis mellifera) on Kangaroo Island and Norfolk Island (Australia) and the Kingdom of Tonga. Apidologie, 50(1), 28-39. [More Information]
  • Gloag, R., Remnant, E., Oldroyd, B. (2019). The frequency of thelytokous parthenogenesis in European-derived Apis mellifera virgin queens. Apidologie, 50(3), 295-303. [More Information]
  • Yagound, B., Smith, N., Buchmann, G., Oldroyd, B., Remnant, E. (2019). Unique DNA Methylation Profiles Are Associated with cis-Variation in Honey Bees. Genome Biology and Evolution, 11(9), 2517-2530. [More Information]
  • *Utaipanon, P., Holmes, M., Chapman, N., Oldroyd, B. (2019). Estimating the density of honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies using trapped drones: area sampled and drone mating flight distance. Apidologie, 50(4), 578-592. [More Information]
  • Chapman, N., Cocenza, R., Blanchard, B., Nguyen, L., Buchmann, G., Oldroyd, B. (2019). Genetic diversity in the progeny of commercial Australian queen honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) produced in autumn and early spring. Journal of Economic Entomology, 112(1), 33-39. [More Information]
  • *Smith, N., Wade, C., Allsopp, M., Harpur, B., Zayed, A., Rose, S., Engelstadter, J., Chapman, N., Yagound, B., Oldroyd, B. (2019). Strikingly high levels of heterozygosity despite 20 years of inbreeding in a clonal honey bee. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 32(2), 144-152. [More Information]