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List of works by Robert J. Paxton

A Scientific Note of Housekeeping Genes for the Primitively Eusocial bee Euglossa viridissima Friese (Apidae: Euglossini)

scientific article published on 17 October 2018

A comparison of two pollinators: the introduced honey bee Apis mellifera and an indigenous bee Centris tarsata on cashew Anacardium occidentale in its native range of NE Brazil

article

A critical analysis of the potential for EU Common Agricultural Policy measures to support wild pollinators on farmland

scientific article published on 16 February 2020

A horizon scan of future threats and opportunities for pollinators and pollination ⬇️

scientific article

A horizon scan of future threats and opportunities for pollinators and pollination

A horizon scan of future threats and opportunities for pollinators and pollination

A microbiome silver bullet for honey bees

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

A new exposure protocol adapted for wild bees reveals species-specific impacts of the sulfoximine insecticide sulfoxaflor

scientific article published on 22 April 2024

A new pollinator initiative on the island of Ireland

scientific article published in 2004

A sting in the spit: widespread cross-infection of multiple RNA viruses across wild and managed bees

scientific article

A subset of wild bee species boosts the pollination of pigeon pea (<i>Cajanus cajan</i>: Fabaceae), an important crop plant of Cameroon

scientific article published in 2022

A two-part modelling approach reveals a positive effect of pollinator biodiversity in boosting the pollination of apple flowers

scientific article published on 23 October 2020

A56 Visualization of recombination in deformed wing virus infecting bees

An optimized method for the generation of AFLP markers in a stingless bee (Melipona quadrifasciata) reveals a high degree of intracolonial genetic polymorphism

Anthropogenic effects on the body size of two neotropical orchid bees

scientific article published in 2022

Apple pollination is ensured by wild bees when honey bees are drawn away from orchards by a mass co-flowering crop, oilseed rape

scientific article published in 2021

Bees under interactive stressors: the novel insecticides flupyradifurone and sulfoxaflor along with the fungicide azoxystrobin disrupt the gut microbiota of honey bees and increase opportunistic bacterial pathogens

scientific article published in November 2022

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

scientific article

Beyond generalists: The Brassicaceae pollen specialist Osmia brevicornis as a prospective model organism when exploring pesticide risk to bees

scientific article published in 2023

Body size, demography and foraging in a socially plastic sweat bee: a common garden experiment

article

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

scientific article

Bridging the Gap between Field Experiments and Machine Learning: The EC H2020 B-GOOD Project as a Case Study towards Automated Predictive Health Monitoring of Honey Bee Colonies

scientific article published in 2024

Building on IUCN regional red lists to produce lists of species of conservation priority: a model with Irish bees

scientific article

Bumble bee colony health and performance vary widely across the urban ecosystem

scientific article published in 2022

Characterization Factors to Assess Land Use Impacts on Pollinator Abundance in Life Cycle Assessment

scientific article published on 13 February 2023

Characterization of 14 polymorphic microsatellite loci for the facultatively eusocial sweat bee Halictus rubicundus (Hymenoptera, Halictidae) and their variability in related species

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

Chronic Exposure to Polystyrene Microplastic Fragments Has No Effect on Honey Bee Survival, but Reduces Feeding Rate and Body Weight

scientific article published in 2023

Colour patterns do not diagnose species: quantitative evaluation of a DNA barcoded cryptic bumblebee complex

scientific article

Comparative methods offer powerful insights into social evolution in bees

article

Complete rRNA gene sequences reveal that the microsporidium Nosema bombi infects diverse bumblebee (Bombus spp.) hosts and contains multiple polymorphic sites

scientific article published in November 2005

Complex sociogenetic organization and reproductive skew in a primitively eusocial sweat bee, Lasioglossum malachurum, as revealed by microsatellites.

scientific article published in November 2002

Conservation genetics of neotropical pollinators revisited: microsatellite analysis suggests that diploid males are rare in orchid bees.

scientific article published in November 2010

Correction: Symbionts as Major Modulators of Insect Health: Lactic Acid Bacteria and Honeybees.

scientific article published on 12 July 2012

Cryptic plasticity underlies a major evolutionary transition

scientific article published on 4 November 2010

Cryptic species diversity in a widespread bumble bee complex revealed using mitochondrial DNA RFLPs

article

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

article

Design and Planning of a Transdisciplinary Investigation into Farmland Pollinators: Rationale, Co-Design, and Lessons Learned

Devasting effects of river flooding to the ground-nesting bee, Andrena vaga (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae), and its associated fauna

article

Developmental stability, age at onset of foraging and longevity of Africanized honey bees ( Apis mellifera L.) under heat stress (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

scholarly article by Rubén G. Medina et al published May 2018 in Journal of Thermal Biology

Disease associations between honeybees and bumblebees as a threat to wild pollinators

scientific article

Divergence in male sexual odor signal and genetics across populations of the red mason bee, Osmia bicornis, in Europe

scientific article published on 22 February 2018

Does infection by Nosema ceranae cause “Colony Collapse Disorder” in honey bees (Apis mellifera)?

article

Doubly duped males: the sweet and sour of the orchid's bouquet

scientific article published in April 2001

Effective population size in ecology and evolution.

scientific article published on 24 August 2016

Effects of Simulated Tropical Heatwaves During Development on Morphological and Reproductive Traits of Africanized Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera L.) Drones and Queens

scientific article published on 21 July 2022

Elevated virulence of an emerging viral genotype as a driver of honeybee loss

scientific article published in June 2016

Emerging Viruses in Bees: From Molecules to Ecology

scientific article published on 07 May 2018

Entomology: The bee-all and end-all

scientific article published on May 2015

Epidemiology of a major honey bee pathogen, deformed wing virus: potential worldwide replacement of genotype A by genotype B

scientific article published on 10 May 2022

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

European isolates of the Microsporidia Nosema apis and Nosema ceranae have similar virulence in laboratory tests on European worker honey bees

article

Evolution of Caste-Specific Chemical Profiles in Halictid Bees

Experimental infection of bumblebees with honeybee-associated viruses: no direct fitness costs but potential future threats to novel wild bee hosts

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

Facultative social insects can provide insights into the reversal of the longevity/fecundity trade-off across the eusocial insects.

scientific article

Female choice in the red mason bee, Osmia rufa (L.) (Megachilidae).

scientific article

Fragmentation in the clouds? The population genetics of the native bee Partamona bilineata (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) in the cloud forests of Guatemala

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Genetic and phenotypic differentiation in endemicScaptotrigona hellwegeri(Apidae: Meliponini): implications for the conservation of stingless bee populations in contrasting environments

article

Genetic differentiation across the social transition in a socially polymorphic sweat bee, Halictus rubicundus

scientific article

Genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism scan suggests adaptation to urbanization in an important pollinator, the red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius L.).

scientific article published in April 2018

Global agricultural productivity is threatened by increasing pollinator dependence without a parallel increase in crop diversification

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

Global trends in the number and diversity of managed pollinator species

scientific article published on 11 September 2021

Heat stress during development affects immunocompetence in workers, queens and drones of Africanized honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Hive-entrance pollen transfer devices to increase the cross-pollination potential of honey bees. I. Examination of six materials

scientific article published on 29 June 2016

Hive-entrance pollen transfer devices to increase the cross-pollination potential of honey bees. II. Examination of three materials and pollen viability

scientific article published on 29 June 2016

Holistic environmental risk assessment for bees

scientific article published on 26 February 2021

Honey bees and climate explain viral prevalence in wild bee communities on a continental scale

scientific article published on 03 February 2022

Identifying key knowledge needs for evidence-based conservation of wild insect pollinators: a collaborative cross-sectoral exercise

article

Impact of Nosema ceranae and Nosema apis on individual worker bees of the two host species (Apis cerana and Apis mellifera) and regulation of host immune response

scientific article

Impact of managed honey bee viruses on wild bees

scientific article

Improving wild bee monitoring, sampling methods, and conservation

scientific article published in 2024

Insights into the biodiversity of the Succulent Karoo hotspot of South Africa: the population genetics of a rare and endemic halictid bee, Patellapis doleritica

article

Interspecific competition in honeybee intracellular gut parasites is asymmetric and favours the spread of an emerging infectious disease

scientific article published in January 2015

Intra-specific variation in sensitivity of Bombus terrestris and Osmia bicornis to three pesticides

scientific article published on 15 October 2022

Is big the best? Queen size, usurpation and nest closure in a primitively eusocial sweat bee (Lasioglossum malachurum)

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Island isolation reduces genetic diversity and connectivity but does not significantly elevate diploid male production in a neotropical orchid bee

article

It's good to be queen: classically eusocial colony structure and low worker fitness in an obligately social sweat bee.

scientific article published in November 2005

Kin discriminators in the eusocial sweat bee Lasioglossum malachurum: the reliability of cuticular and Dufour’s gland odours

article

Landscape effects on extremely fragmented populations of a rare solitary bee, Colletes floralis.

scientific article

Local-scale factors structure wild bee communities in protected areas

article

Male mating behaviour and mating systems of bees: an overview

article

Mason bees and honey bees synergistically enhance fruit set in sweet cherry orchards

scientific article published in 2023

Microsatellite analysis supports the existence of three cryptic species within the bumble bee Bombus lucorum sensu lato

Microsatellite loci forEuglossa annectans(Hymenoptera: Apidae) and their variability in other orchid bees

article

Mode of Transmission Determines the Virulence of Black Queen Cell Virus in Adult Honey Bees, Posing a Future Threat to Bees and Apiculture

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

Molecular characterization of<i>Nosema bombi</i>(Microsporidia: Nosematidae) and a note on its sites of infection in<i>Bombus terrestris</i>(Hymenoptera: Apoidea)

scientific article published on 29 June 2016

Morphological and molecular characterization of Antonospora scoticae n. gen., n. sp. (Protozoa, microsporidia) a parasite of the communal bee, Andrena scotica Perkins, 1916 (Hymenoptera, andrenidae)

Morphological and molecular characters reveal differentiation in a Neotropical social bee,Melipona beecheii(Apidae: Meliponini)

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Multiple rRNA variants in a single spore of the microsporidian Nosema bombi

scientific article published in January 2007

Nationwide Screening for Bee Viruses in Apis mellifera Colonies in Egypt

scientific article published in 2023

Nosema ceranae is not detected in honey bees (Apis spp.) of northeast Thailand

scholarly article by Siripuk Suraporn et al published January 2013 in Journal of Apicultural Research and Bee World

Nosema ceranaehas infectedApis melliferain Europe since at least 1998 and may be more virulent thanNosema apis

article

Not Only Single Mating in Stingless Bees

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

article

On Aposematic Coloration: A Rejoinder

article

On the Evolution of Müllerian Mimicry: Hypotheses and Tests

scientific article published in 1983

Ontogeny of renin gene expression in the chicken, Gallus gallus

scientific article published on 16 June 2020

Opportunities to reduce pollination deficits and address production shortfalls in an important insect‐pollinated crop

scientific article published on 19 October 2021

Optimal search patterns in honeybee orientation flights are robust against emerging infectious diseases

scientific article

Ovariole number—a predictor of differential reproductive success among worker subfamilies in queenless honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies

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

scientific article

Parasites modulate within-colony activity and accelerate the temporal polyethism schedule of a social insect, the honey bee

scientific article

Paternity frequency and maternity of males in some stingless bee species

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Pathways for Novel Epidemiology: Plant–Pollinator–Pathogen Networks and Global Change

scientific article published on 15 April 2021

Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 May 2009-31 July 2009.

scientific article published on 29 September 2009

Physician Assistants' Role in Twenty-First Century Infectious Diseases

scientific article published on 10 March 2017

Playing with extremes: Origins and evolution of exaggerated female forelegs in South African Rediviva bees.

scientific article

Pollination services enhanced with urbanization despite increasing pollinator parasitism

scientific article published in June 2016

PoshBee: Pan-European Assessment, Monitoring, and Mitigation of Stressors on the Health of Bees

scientific article published on 17 August 2021

Profile of a Solitary Bee:<i>Andrena Fulva</i>

scientific article published in 1991

Propolis Consumption Reduces Nosema ceranae Infection of European Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)

scientific article published on 15 February 2020

Quantifying forage specialisation in polyphagic insects: the polylectic and rare solitary bee, Colletes floralis (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)

article

Queen-worker conflict over male production and the sex ratio in a facultatively polyandrous bumblebee, Bombus hypnorum: the consequences of nest usurpation

scientific article published in October 2001

Rapid assessment of insect pollination services to inform decision‐making

scientific article published on 25 January 2022

Rarity and decline in bumblebees – A test of causes and correlates in the Irish fauna

article

Recent low levels of differentiation in the native Bombus ephippiatus (Hymenoptera: Apidae) along two Neotropical mountain-ranges in Guatemala

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Records of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) new to both Georgia and Transcaucasia revealed by DNA barcoding

scholarly article by Giorgi Kirkitadze et al published 20 March 2017 in Zoology in the Middle East

Replication of honey bee-associated RNA viruses across multiple bee species in apple orchards of Georgia, Germany and Kyrgyzstan.

scientific article

Research strategies to improve honeybee health in Europe

article

Satellite flies (Leucophora personata, Diptera: Anthomyiidae) and other dipteran parasites of the communal beeAndrena agilissima(Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) on the island of Elba, Italy

article

Should I stay or should I go? Pollinator shifts rather than cospeciation dominate the evolutionary history of South African Rediviva bees and their Diascia host plants

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

Small and genetically highly structured populations in a long-legged bee, Rediviva longimanus, as inferred by pooled RAD-seq

scientific article published in 2018

So near and yet so far: harmonic radar reveals reduced homing ability of Nosema infected honeybees.

scientific article

Special issue on bee conservation

scientific article published in 2009

Species traits, landscape quality and floral resource overlap with honeybees determine virus transmission in plant–pollinator networks

scientific article published on 4 October 2024

Specific and sensitive detection of Nosema bombi (Microsporidia: Nosematidae) in bumble bees (Bombus spp.; Hymenoptera: Apidae) by PCR of partial rRNA gene sequences

scientific article published on 22 December 2005

Standard methods for Nosema research

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Standard methods for maintaining adultApis melliferain cages underin vitrolaboratory conditions

article

Stingless bees in urban areas: low body size and high frequency of diploid males at mating congregations of Nannotrigona perilampoides (Hymenoptera: Meliponini) in Mérida, Yucatán, México

scientific article published in 2021

Structure of deformed wing virus, a major honey bee pathogen.

scientific article

Sweat bees on hot chillies: provision of pollination services by native bees in traditional slash-and-burn agriculture in the Yucatán Peninsula of tropical Mexico.

scientific article

Symbionts as major modulators of insect health: lactic acid bacteria and honeybees

scientific article

Sympatric cleptobiotic stingless bees have species-specific cuticular profiles that resemble their hosts

scientific article published on 16 February 2022

Sympatric lineage divergence in cryptic Neotropical sweat bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Lasioglossum)

scholarly article by Patricia Landaverde-González et al published 26 October 2016 in Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Temporal changes inVarroa destructorfertility and haplotype in Brazil

article

The Anatomy of Fascism

2004 book by Robert O. Paxton

The Bee Microbiome: Impact on Bee Health and Model for Evolution and Ecology of Host-Microbe Interactions

scientific article

The Evolution of Aposematic Coloration

article

The Evolution of Aposematic Coloration in Distasteful Prey: A Family Model

article

The Gut Microbiota Can Provide Viral Tolerance in the Honey Bee

scientific article published on 19 April 2021

The Two Prevalent Genotypes of an Emerging Infectious Disease, , Cause Equally Low Pupal Mortality and Equally High Wing Deformities in Host Honey Bees

scientific article published in 2019

The complete mitochondrial genome of the endemic and highly specialized South African bee speciesRediviva intermixta(Hymenoptera: Melittidae), with a comparison with other bee mitogenomes

scholarly article by Belinda Kahnt et al published 25 August 2015 in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

The conservation of bees: a global perspective

article

The contribution of honey bees, flies and wasps to avocado (<i>Persea americana</i>) pollination in southern Mexico

scientific article published on 26 March 2019

The novel insecticides flupyradifurone and sulfoxaflor do not act synergistically with viral pathogens in reducing honey bee (Apis mellifera) survival but sulfoxaflor modulates host immunocompetence

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

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 presence of identical deformed wing virus sequence variants in co-occurring Apis species in Northern Thailand may represent a potential epidemiological threat to native honey bees of Southeast Asia

scientific article published in 2023

The structure of flower visitor networks in relation to pollination across an agricultural to urban gradient

article

The virulent, emerging genotype B of Deformed wing virus is closely linked to overwinter honeybee worker loss

scientific article

Transcriptomic Responses Underlying the High Virulence of Black Queen Cell Virus and Sacbrood Virus following a Change in Their Mode of Transmission in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)

scientific article published in 2023

Trouble in the tropics: Pathogen spillover is a threat for native stingless bees

scientific article published in 2023

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

scientific article

Unusually high frequency of (CT)n and (GT)n microsatellite loci in a yellowjacket wasp, Vespula rufa (L.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae).

scientific article published on August 1995

Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects

scientific article published on 29 January 2020

Urban fragmentation leads to lower floral diversity, with knock-on impacts on bee biodiversity

scientific article published on 10 December 2020

Urbanisation and agricultural intensification modulate plant–pollinator network structure and robustness

scientific article published in 2024

Urbanization is associated with shifts in bumblebee body size, with cascading effects on pollination

scientific article published on 08 August 2020

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

scientific article

Widespread dispersal of the microsporidian Nosema ceranae, an emergent pathogen of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera

scientific article published on 12 March 2007

Within-host competition among the honey bees pathogens Nosema ceranae and Deformed wing virus is asymmetric and to the disadvantage of the virus

scientific article

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