Researcher interests: The evolution of sociality and social behavior. Animal behavior; sociobiology; genes and behavior; honey bee and bumblebee biology. Evolution; chronobiology; insect physiology; entomology; zoology.
FACULTY / SCHOOL: Faculty of Science
Selected Publications
rna editing is abundant and correlates with task performance in a social bumblebee (2019)|
Nature Communications|
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colony volatiles and substrate borne vibrations entrain circadian rhythms and are potential mediators of social synchronization in honey bee colonies (2019)|
bioRxiv|
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bumble bee workers give up sleep to care for offspring that are not their own (2019)|
Current Biology|
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body size variation in bees regulation mechanisms and relationship to social organization (2019)|
Current opinion in insect science|
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brain microrna expression associated with social evolution in bees (2019)|
bioRxiv|
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worker body size but not its age influences phototaxis in a bumblebee bombus terrestris l (2019)|
bioRxiv|
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juvenile hormone interacts with multiple factors to modulate aggression and dominance in a social bumblebee (2019)|
bioRxiv|
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signals from the brood modulate the sleep of brood tending bumblebee workers (2018)|
bioRxiv|
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inferring dynamic topology for decoding spatiotemporal structures in complex heterogeneous networks (2018)|
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|
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the influence of social information and self expertise on emergent task allocation in virtual groups (2018)|
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution|
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