List of works - Robin Moritz

A Single SNP Turns a Social Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Worker into a Selfish Parasite

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

A gene for resistance to the Varroa mite (Acari) in honey bee (Apis mellifera) pupae

scientific article published on 05 May 2019

A microsatellite DNA toolkit for studying population structure in Apis mellifera.

scientific article

A second generation genetic map of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758) reveals slow genome and chromosome evolution in the Apidae

scientific article (publication date: 19 January 2011)

A selective sweep in a Varroa destructor resistant honeybee (Apis mellifera) population

scientific article

A selective sweep in a microsporidian parasite Nosema-tolerant honeybee population, Apis mellifera.

scientific article

Alternative splicing of a single transcription factor drives selfish reproductive behavior in honeybee workers (Apis mellifera).

scientific article published on 06 September 2011

Association of Varroa destructor females in multiply infested cells of the honeybee Apis mellifera

scientific article

Attraction and Repellence of Workers by the Honeybee Queen (Apis mellifera L.)

scientific article published on 11 March 2003

BeeDoctor, a versatile MLPA-based diagnostic tool for screening bee viruses.

scientific article published on 29 October 2012

Bees under stress: sublethal doses of a neonicotinoid pesticide and pathogens interact to elevate honey bee mortality across the life cycle

scientific article

Brain transcriptomes of honey bees (Apis mellifera) experimentally infected by two pathogens: Black queen cell virus and Nosema ceranae

scientific article

Caste development and reproduction: a genome-wide analysis of hallmarks of insect eusociality

scientific article published on October 2006

Climate rather than geography separates two European honeybee subspecies.

scientific article published on 21 April 2014

Comparative analyses of the major royal jelly protein gene cluster in three Apis species with long amplicon sequencing.

scientific article

Competition for royalty in bees

scientific article published in Nature

Conditions for the invasion of male-haploidy in diploid populations

scientific article

Conserving genetic diversity in the honeybee: comments on Harpur et al. (2012).

scientific article

Control of reproductive dominance by the thelytoky gene in honeybees

scientific article published on June 2007

Deformed wing virus and drone mating flights in the honey bee (Apis mellifera): implications for sexual transmission of a major honey bee virus

article

Differential proteomics reveals novel insights into Nosema-honey bee interactions.

scientific article

Diversity of honey stores and their impact on pathogenic bacteria of the honeybee, Apis mellifera

scientific article

Effect of density on traffic and velocity on trunk trails of Formica pratensis.

scientific article published on 27 March 2015

Egg viability and worker policing in honey bees.

scholarly article

Erratum

Erratum to: Unity in defence: honeybee workers exhibit conserved molecular responses to diverse pathogens

scientific article published on 23 March 2017

Estimating the density of honeybee colonies across their natural range to fill the gap in pollinator decline censuses.

scientific article

Estimating the genetic variance of group characters: social behaviour of honeybees (Apis mellifera L.).

scientific article published on 01 July 1986

Extensive population admixture on drone congregation areas of the giant honeybee, Apis dorsata (Fabricius, 1793).

scientific article

Factors influencing Nosema bombi infections in natural populations of Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera: Apidae).

scientific article published on 14 February 2012

Finding the missing honey bee genes: lessons learned from a genome upgrade

scientific article

Food to some, poison to others - honeybee royal jelly and its growth inhibiting effect on European Foulbrood bacteria.

scientific article

Four quantitative trait loci associated with low Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia) spore load in the honeybee Apis mellifera

Genetic diversity and mass resources promote colony size and forager densities of a social bee (Bombus pascuorum) in agricultural landscapes.

scientific article

Genetic structure of Balearic honeybee populations based on microsatellite polymorphism.

scientific article published on May 2003

Genetic underpinnings of division of labor in the honeybee (Apis mellifera).

scientific article

Global invasions of the western honeybee (Apis mellifera) and the consequences for biodiversity

scientific article published in 2005

Gut pathology and responses to the microsporidium Nosema ceranae in the honey bee Apis mellifera

scientific article

High degree of polyandry in Apis dorsata queens detected by DNA microsatellite variability

scientific article (publication date: November 1995)

Honeybee workers (Apis mellifera capensis) compete for producing queen-like pheromone signals

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

Host Specificity in the Honeybee Parasitic Mite, Varroa spp. in Apis mellifera and Apis cerana.

scientific article

How Honeybees Defy Gravity with Royal Jelly to Raise Queens.

scientific article published on 2 March 2018

Identifying and managing the conflicts between agriculture and biodiversity conservation in Europe–A review

scientific article published in March 2008

Infection dynamics of Nosema ceranae in honey bee midgut and host cell apoptosis.

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Infestation levels ofApis mellifera scutellataswarms by socially parasitic Cape honeybee workers (Apis mellifera capensis)

Interactions among flavonoids of propolis affect antibacterial activity against the honeybee pathogen Paenibacillus larvae.

scientific article published on 22 February 2012

Invasion of the dwarf honeybee Apis florea into the near East

scientific article published on 14 July 2009

Lethal fighting between honeybee queens and parasitic workers (Apis mellifera)

scientific article published on 18 July 2003

Lethal infection thresholds of Paenibacillus larvae for honeybee drone and worker larvae (Apis mellifera).

scientific article published on 7 July 2010

Lost colonies found in a data mine: Global honey trade but not pests or pesticides as a major cause of regional honeybee colony declines

Mating flights select for symmetry in honeybee drones (Apis mellifera).

scientific article published on 15 December 2009

Molecular phylogeny of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) and the evolution of sociality in wasps.

scientific article published on April 1998

Molting interferes with web decorating behavior in Argiope keyserlingi (Araneae, Araneidae)

scholarly article by André Walter et al published December 2008 in Journal of Arachnology

More than royal food - Major royal jelly protein genes in sexuals and workers of the honeybee Apis mellifera.

scientific article

MtDNA variation in Apis cerana populations from the Philippines.

scientific article

Neonicotinoid pesticides can reduce honeybee colony genetic diversity

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Nosema Tolerant Honeybees (Apis mellifera) Escape Parasitic Manipulation of Apoptosis.

scientific article

Nosema spp. infections cause no energetic stress in tolerant honeybees.

scientific article

Novel microsatellite DNA loci for Bombus terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758).

scientific article

Number of honeybee colonies in areas with high and low beekeeping activity in Southern Mexico

article

Origin and function of the major royal jelly proteins of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) as members of the yellow gene family.

scientific article published on 16 July 2013

Parasite resistance and tolerance in honeybees at the individual and social level

scientific article

Parasites and Pathogens of the Honeybee (Apis mellifera) and Their Influence on Inter-Colonial Transmission

scientific article

Patterns of evolutionary conservation of microsatellites (SSRs) suggest a faster rate of genome evolution in Hymenoptera than in Diptera

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Pharmacophagy and pharmacophory: mechanisms of self-medication and disease prevention in the honeybee colony (Apis mellifera)

scientific article published on 24 October 2015

Phenotype interactions in group behavior of honey bee workers (Apis mellifera L.)

scientific article published on 19 October 2004

Pheromone-mediated reproductive dominance hierarchies among pseudo-clonal honeybee workers (Apis mellifera capensis)

Population history in social spiders repeated: colony structure and lineage evolution in Stegodyphus mimosarum (Eresidae).

scientific article

Pupal developmental temperature and behavioral specialization of honeybee workers (Apis mellifera L.).

scientific article

Queen mating frequency in different types of honey bee mating apiaries

article by Peter Neumann et al published January 1999 in Journal of Apicultural Research and Bee World

RESTseq--efficient benchtop population genomics with RESTriction Fragment SEQuencing ⬇️

scientific article

Rare royal families in honeybees, Apis mellifera.

scientific article published on 28 October 2005

Reproductive biology of the Cape honeybee: a critique of Beekman et al.

scientific article published on 11 May 2012

Reproductive division of labour and thelytoky result in sympatric barriers to gene flow in honeybees (Apis mellifera L.).

scientific article published on 2 November 2010

Risks and benefits of the biological interface between managed and wild bee pollinators

scientific article published in 2016

Royalactin is not a royal making of a queen

scientific article

Seasonal cycle of inbreeding and recombination of the parasitic mite Varroa destructor in honeybee colonies and its implications for the selection of acaricide resistance

scientific article

Seasonal nestmate recognition in the ant Formica exsecta

article published in 2006

Selection of resistance againstVarroa jacobsoni across caste and sex in the honeybee (Apis mellifera L., Hymenoptera: Apidae)

scientific article published on 25 February 2005

Shift work has a genetic basis in honeybee pollen foragers (Apis mellifera L.).

scientific article

Short-sighted evolution of virulence in parasitic honeybee workers (Apis mellifera capensis Esch.).

scientific article published on 21 February 2008

Social evolution. Genomic signatures of evolutionary transitions from solitary to group living.

scientific article

Sociality and the rate of rDNA sequence evolution in wasps (Vespidae) and honeybees (Apis).

scientific article published in November 1998

Spatial and temporal dynamics of the male effective population size in bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

article

Species cohesion despite extreme inbreeding in a social spider.

scientific article

Standard methods for molecular research inApis mellifera

article

Survival and immune response of drones of a Nosemosis tolerant honey bee strain towards N. ceranae infections.

scientific article published on 20 January 2012

Systemic RNA-interference in the honeybee Apis mellifera: tissue dependent uptake of fluorescent siRNA after intra-abdominal application observed by laser-scanning microscopy.

scientific article

THE WASP SPIDER ARGIOPE BRUENNICHI (ARACHNIDA, ARANEIDAE): BALLOONING IS NOT AN OBLIGATE LIFE HISTORY PHASE

scholarly article by André Walter et al published August 2005 in Journal of Arachnology

Temporal genetic structure of a drone congregation area of the giant Asian honeybee (Apis dorsata).

scientific article published on 27 September 2005

Temporal variation in the genetic structure of a drone congregation area: an insight into the population dynamics of wild African honeybees (Apis mellifera scutellata).

scientific article

The Invasion of the Dwarf Honeybee, Apis florea, along the River Nile in Sudan ⬇️

scientific article in Insects 2019, 10(11), 405

The LEGATO cross-disciplinary integrated ecosystem service research framework: an example of integrating research results from the analysis of global change impacts and the social, cultural and economic system dynamics of irrigated rice production

scholarly article published 20 December 2017

The evolution of extreme polyandry in social insects: insights from army ants

scientific article

The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization ⬇️

scientific article

The ontogenetic pattern of mandibular gland components in queenless worker bees (Apis mellifera capensis Esch.).

scientific article published in July 2001

The population genetics of two orchid bees suggests high dispersal, low diploid male production and only an effect of island isolation in lowering genetic diversity

article

The role of epistatic interactions underpinning resistance to parasitic Varroa mites in haploid honeybee drones.

scientific article published on 25 March 2018

The transcriptomic changes associated with the development of social parasitism in the honeybee Apis mellifera capensis.

scientific article published on 20 March 2018

Three QTL in the honey bee Apis mellifera L. suppress reproduction of the parasitic mite Varroa destructor.

scientific article published on December 2011

Ties between ageing plasticity and reproductive physiology in honey bees (Apis mellifera) reveal a positive relation between fecundity and longevity as consequence of advanced social evolution

scientific article published on 20 May 2016

Transfer of paternal mitochondrial DNA during fertilization of honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) eggs.

scientific article

Unity in defence: honeybee workers exhibit conserved molecular responses to diverse pathogens

scientific article

Viral prevalence increases with regional colony abundance in honey bee drones (Apis mellifera L).

scientific article

What is the main driver of ageing in long-lived winter honeybees: antioxidant enzymes, innate immunity, or vitellogenin?

scientific article

Worker caste determination in the army ant Eciton burchellii

scientific article

Workers dominate male production in the neotropical bumblebee Bombus wilmattae (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

scientific article

List of works by Robin Moritz

A Single SNP Turns a Social Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Worker into a Selfish Parasite

A gene for resistance to the Varroa mite (Acari) in honey bee (Apis mellifera) pupae

A microsatellite DNA toolkit for studying population structure in Apis mellifera.

A second generation genetic map of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758) reveals slow genome and chromosome evolution in the Apidae

A selective sweep in a Varroa destructor resistant honeybee (Apis mellifera) population

A selective sweep in a microsporidian parasite Nosema-tolerant honeybee population, Apis mellifera.

Alternative splicing of a single transcription factor drives selfish reproductive behavior in honeybee workers (Apis mellifera).

Association of Varroa destructor females in multiply infested cells of the honeybee Apis mellifera

Attraction and Repellence of Workers by the Honeybee Queen (Apis mellifera L.)

BeeDoctor, a versatile MLPA-based diagnostic tool for screening bee viruses.

Bees under stress: sublethal doses of a neonicotinoid pesticide and pathogens interact to elevate honey bee mortality across the life cycle

Brain transcriptomes of honey bees (Apis mellifera) experimentally infected by two pathogens: Black queen cell virus and Nosema ceranae

Caste development and reproduction: a genome-wide analysis of hallmarks of insect eusociality

Climate rather than geography separates two European honeybee subspecies.

Comparative analyses of the major royal jelly protein gene cluster in three Apis species with long amplicon sequencing.

Competition for royalty in bees

Conditions for the invasion of male-haploidy in diploid populations

Conserving genetic diversity in the honeybee: comments on Harpur et al. (2012).

Control of reproductive dominance by the thelytoky gene in honeybees

Deformed wing virus and drone mating flights in the honey bee (Apis mellifera): implications for sexual transmission of a major honey bee virus

Differential proteomics reveals novel insights into Nosema-honey bee interactions.

Diversity of honey stores and their impact on pathogenic bacteria of the honeybee, Apis mellifera

Effect of density on traffic and velocity on trunk trails of Formica pratensis.

Egg viability and worker policing in honey bees.

Erratum

Erratum to: Unity in defence: honeybee workers exhibit conserved molecular responses to diverse pathogens

Estimating the density of honeybee colonies across their natural range to fill the gap in pollinator decline censuses.

Estimating the genetic variance of group characters: social behaviour of honeybees (Apis mellifera L.).

Extensive population admixture on drone congregation areas of the giant honeybee, Apis dorsata (Fabricius, 1793).

Factors influencing Nosema bombi infections in natural populations of Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera: Apidae).

Finding the missing honey bee genes: lessons learned from a genome upgrade

Food to some, poison to others - honeybee royal jelly and its growth inhibiting effect on European Foulbrood bacteria.

Four quantitative trait loci associated with low Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia) spore load in the honeybee Apis mellifera

Genetic diversity and mass resources promote colony size and forager densities of a social bee (Bombus pascuorum) in agricultural landscapes.

Genetic structure of Balearic honeybee populations based on microsatellite polymorphism.

Genetic underpinnings of division of labor in the honeybee (Apis mellifera).

Global invasions of the western honeybee (Apis mellifera) and the consequences for biodiversity

Gut pathology and responses to the microsporidium Nosema ceranae in the honey bee Apis mellifera

High degree of polyandry in Apis dorsata queens detected by DNA microsatellite variability

Honeybee workers (Apis mellifera capensis) compete for producing queen-like pheromone signals

Host Specificity in the Honeybee Parasitic Mite, Varroa spp. in Apis mellifera and Apis cerana.

How Honeybees Defy Gravity with Royal Jelly to Raise Queens.

Identifying and managing the conflicts between agriculture and biodiversity conservation in Europe–A review

Infection dynamics of Nosema ceranae in honey bee midgut and host cell apoptosis.

Infestation levels ofApis mellifera scutellataswarms by socially parasitic Cape honeybee workers (Apis mellifera capensis)

Interactions among flavonoids of propolis affect antibacterial activity against the honeybee pathogen Paenibacillus larvae.

Invasion of the dwarf honeybee Apis florea into the near East

Lethal fighting between honeybee queens and parasitic workers (Apis mellifera)

Lethal infection thresholds of Paenibacillus larvae for honeybee drone and worker larvae (Apis mellifera).

Lost colonies found in a data mine: Global honey trade but not pests or pesticides as a major cause of regional honeybee colony declines

Mating flights select for symmetry in honeybee drones (Apis mellifera).

Molecular phylogeny of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) and the evolution of sociality in wasps.

Molting interferes with web decorating behavior in Argiope keyserlingi (Araneae, Araneidae)

More than royal food - Major royal jelly protein genes in sexuals and workers of the honeybee Apis mellifera.

MtDNA variation in Apis cerana populations from the Philippines.

Neonicotinoid pesticides can reduce honeybee colony genetic diversity

Nosema Tolerant Honeybees (Apis mellifera) Escape Parasitic Manipulation of Apoptosis.

Nosema spp. infections cause no energetic stress in tolerant honeybees.

Novel microsatellite DNA loci for Bombus terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758).

Number of honeybee colonies in areas with high and low beekeeping activity in Southern Mexico

Origin and function of the major royal jelly proteins of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) as members of the yellow gene family.

Parasite resistance and tolerance in honeybees at the individual and social level

Parasites and Pathogens of the Honeybee (Apis mellifera) and Their Influence on Inter-Colonial Transmission

Patterns of evolutionary conservation of microsatellites (SSRs) suggest a faster rate of genome evolution in Hymenoptera than in Diptera

Pharmacophagy and pharmacophory: mechanisms of self-medication and disease prevention in the honeybee colony (Apis mellifera)

Phenotype interactions in group behavior of honey bee workers (Apis mellifera L.)

Pheromone-mediated reproductive dominance hierarchies among pseudo-clonal honeybee workers (Apis mellifera capensis)

Population history in social spiders repeated: colony structure and lineage evolution in Stegodyphus mimosarum (Eresidae).

Pupal developmental temperature and behavioral specialization of honeybee workers (Apis mellifera L.).

Queen mating frequency in different types of honey bee mating apiaries

RESTseq--efficient benchtop population genomics with RESTriction Fragment SEQuencing ⬇️

Rare royal families in honeybees, Apis mellifera.

Reproductive biology of the Cape honeybee: a critique of Beekman et al.

Reproductive division of labour and thelytoky result in sympatric barriers to gene flow in honeybees (Apis mellifera L.).

Risks and benefits of the biological interface between managed and wild bee pollinators

Royalactin is not a royal making of a queen

Seasonal cycle of inbreeding and recombination of the parasitic mite Varroa destructor in honeybee colonies and its implications for the selection of acaricide resistance

Seasonal nestmate recognition in the ant Formica exsecta

Selection of resistance againstVarroa jacobsoni across caste and sex in the honeybee (Apis mellifera L., Hymenoptera: Apidae)