A5060627829- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Plant and animal studies
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Insect Resistance and Genetics
- Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Research Data Management Practices
- Geography Education and Pedagogy
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Water Quality Monitoring Technologies
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Data Quality and Management
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Plant Virus Research Studies
University of Alberta
2023-2024
Iowa State University
2013-2023
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
2016-2019
Cornell University
2019
University of Exeter
2016-2017
Carl Hayden Bee Research Center
2013-2015
Agricultural Research Service
2014-2015
Nearly all eukaryotes are host to beneficial or benign bacteria in their gut lumen, either vertically inherited, acquired from the environment. While core honey bee becoming evident, influence of hive and pollination environment on microbial health is largely unexplored. Here we compare floral nectar immediate environment, different segments (Apis mellifera) alimentary tract, food stored (honey packed pollen "beebread"). We used cultivation sequencing explore bacterial communities sample...
ABSTRACT Resistance to and avoidance of stress slow aging confer increased longevity in numerous organisms. Honey bees other superorganismal social insects have two main advantages over solitary species avoid or resist stress: individuals can directly help each by resource information transfer, they cooperatively control their environment. These benefits been recognised the context pathogen parasite as concept immunity, which has extensively studied. However, we argue that immunity is only a...
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) contribute substantially to the worldwide economy and ecosystem health as pollinators. Pollen is essential bee's diet, providing protein, lipids, micronutrients. The dramatic shifts in physiology, anatomy, behavior that accompany normal worker development are highly plastic recent work demonstrates development, particularly transition from nurse foraging roles, greatly impacted by diet. However, role diet plays developmental of newly eclosed workers poorly...
Abstract Animal nutritional state can profoundly affect behaviour, including an individual's tendency to cooperate with others. We investigated how restriction at different life stages affects cooperative behaviour in a highly social species, Apis mellifera honeybees. found that worker's queen pheromone response, behavioural indicator of investment group vs. individual reproduction. Nutritional the larval stage led reduced ovary size and increased whereas adult lipid stores response. argue...
Abstract Nourishment can have profound effects on social behaviour, including aggressive interactions between individuals. The prevailing theoretical and empirical understanding is that when nutritional resources are limited, inter‐individual competition aggression will increase. Alternatively, studies from some group‐living species suggest limited nutrition lead to increased cooperation, by a reduction in aggression. Thus, general model for how why resource limitation affects behaviour...
Abstract The ability to recognize and discriminate among others is a frequent assumption of models the evolution cooperative behavior. At same time, behavior has been proposed as selective agent favoring individual recognition abilities. While theory predicts that cooperation may co-evolve, data linking abilities with fitness or evidence selection are elusive. Here, we provide link between in paper wasp Polistes fuscatus . Nest founding females northern populations frequently form multiple...
Abstract The consequences of early-life experiences are far reaching. In particular, the social and nutritional environments that developing animals experience can shape their adult phenotypes. honeybees, larval nutrition determines eventual roles adults as reproductive queens or sterile workers. However, little is known about effects developmental on important worker phenotypes such disease resilience. this study, we manipulated in two distinct ways under semi-natural field conditions....