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List of works by Bryan N. Danforth

(More than) Hitchhikers through the network: The shared microbiome of bees and flowers

scientific article published on 26 September 2020

A fossil bee from Early Cretaceous Burmese amber

scientific article

A global quantitative synthesis of local and landscape effects on wild bee pollinators in agroecosystems

scientific article published on 11 March 2013

A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes

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A simple and distinctive microbiota associated with honey bees and bumble bees.

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Agriculturally dominated landscapes reduce bee phylogenetic diversity and pollination services

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Analysis of family-level relationships in bees (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) using 28S and two previously unexplored nuclear genes: CAD and RNA polymerase II.

scientific article published on 18 January 2006

Australian Lasioglossum + Homalictus Form a Monophyletic Group: Resolving the “Australian Enigma”

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Bees diversified in the age of eudicots ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 22 March 2013)

Bees in the trees: Diverse spring fauna in temperate forest edge canopies

scientific article published on 11 January 2021

Bees.

scientific article published on March 2007

Biodiversity ensures plant-pollinator phenological synchrony against climate change.

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Biogeography and diversification of colletid bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae): emerging patterns from the southern end of the world

scholarly article by Eduardo A.B. Almeida et al published 6 December 2011 in Journal of Biogeography

Biology of Calliopsis pugionis (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae): Nesting, Foraging, and Investment Sex Ratio

scholarly article by P. Kirk Visscher & Bryan N. Danforth published 1 November 1993 in Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Changing paradigms in insect social evolution: insights from halictine and allodapine bees

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Climate, physiological tolerance and sex-biased dispersal shape genetic structure of Neotropical orchid bees

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Climate-associated phenological advances in bee pollinators and bee-pollinated plants

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Climate-driven range shifts of a rare specialist bee, Macropis nuda (Melittidae), and its host plant, Lysimachia ciliata (Primulaceae)

scientific article published in 2022

Combining transcriptomes and ultraconserved elements to illuminate the phylogeny of Apidae

scientific article published on 14 October 2018

Comprehensive phylogeny of apid bees reveals the evolutionary origins and antiquity of cleptoparasitism

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Correction to: Nearly half of spring-flying male Andrena bees consume pollen, but less than female conspecifics

scientific article published in 2022

Corrigendum: Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation

scientific article published on 18 February 2016

Crop domestication facilitated rapid geographical expansion of a specialist pollinator, the squash bee Peponapis pruinosa.

scientific article published in June 2016

CropPol : A dynamic, open and global database on crop pollination

scientific article published on 17 February 2022

Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation

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Determining Parasitoid Species Composition in a Host Population: A Molecular Approach

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Diet diversity and pesticide risk mediate the negative effects of land use change on solitary bee offspring production

scientific article published in 2020

Discovery and characterization of microsatellites for the solitary bee Colletes inaequalis using Sanger and 454 pyrosequencing

article published in 2012

Dynamics of a Host-Cleptoparasite Relationship: Holcopasites ruthae as a Parasite of Calliopsis pugionis (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae, Andrenidae)

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Early Nesting Biology of the Bee Caupolicana yarrowi (Cresson) (Colletidae: Diphaglossinae) and Its Cleptoparasite Triepeolus grandis (Friese) (Apidae: Nomadinae) ⬇️

scientific article published in 2019

Early spring orchard pollinators spill over from resource‐rich adjacent forest patches

scientific article published in 2023

Early‐season mass‐flowering crop cover dilutes wild bee abundance and species richness in temperate regions: A quantitative synthesis

scientific article published in 2023

Emergence dynamics and bet hedging in a desert bee, Perdita portalis

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Episodes in insect evolution ⬇️

scientific article published on June 24, 2009

Evolution and biogeography of native Hawaiian Hylaeus bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)

scholarly article by Karl N. Magnacca & Bryan N. Danforth published October 2006 in Cladistics

Evolution of sociality in a primitively eusocial lineage of bees

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Exosymbiotic microbes within fermented pollen provisions are as important for the development of solitary bees as the pollen itself

scientific article published on 07 April 2022

Female Foraging and Intranest Behavior of a Communal Bee, Perdita portalis (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae)

scholarly article by Bryan N. Danforth published 1 September 1991 in Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Gene Flow and Population Structure in an Oligolectic Desert Bee, Macrotera (Macroteropsis) portalis (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae)

Gene tree estimation error with ultraconserved elements: An empirical study on Pseudapis bees

scientific article published on 26 December 2020

Genome of the bee <i>Holcopasites calliopsidis—</i>a species showing the common apid trait of brood parasitism

scientific article published in 2022

Historical changes in northeastern US bee pollinators related to shared ecological traits

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How do insect nuclear and mitochondrial gene substitution patterns differ? Insights from Bayesian analyses of combined datasets.

scientific article published in March 2004

How do insect nuclear ribosomal genes compare to protein-coding genes in phylogenetic utility and nucleotide substitution patterns?

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Identifying the sister group to the bees: a molecular phylogeny of Aculeata with an emphasis on the superfamily Apoidea

scientific article (publication date: 14 June 2012)

Insights into Bee Evolution: A Tribute to Charles D. Michener

Introduction of Non-Native Pollinators Can Lead to Trans-Continental Movement of Bee-Associated Fungi ⬇️

scientific article published on 23 June 2015

Isolation and cross-species characterization of polymorphic microsatellites for the orchid bee Eulaema meriana (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini)

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Landscape Composition and Fungicide Exposure Influence Host-Pathogen Dynamics in a Solitary Bee

scientific article published on 28 November 2020

Landscape context shifts the balance of costs and benefits from wildflower borders on multiple ecosystem services

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Landscape simplification reduces classical biological control and crop yield

scientific article published on 18 January 2018

Long-legged bees make adaptive leaps: linking adaptation to coevolution in a plant-pollinator network.

scientific article published in September 2017

Low nuclear DNA variation supports a recent origin of Hawaiian Hylaeus bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae).

scientific article published on 9 September 2006

Macro-conformality of coatings deposited using high-speed spatial plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Mitochondrial Dna Differentiation between Two Cryptic Halictus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) Species

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Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of maternal care in Membracine treehoppers

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Morphology, Classification, and Antiquity of Melittosphex burmensis (Apoidea: Melittosphecidae) and Implications for Early Bee Evolution

scientific article published in 2011

NESTMATE RELATEDNESS IN A COMMUNAL BEE, PERDITA TEXANA (HYMENOPTERA: ANDRENIDAE), BASED ON DNA FINGERPRINTING

scientific article published on 01 February 1996

Nearly half of spring-flying male Andrena bees consume pollen, but less than female conspecifics

scientific article published in 2022

Negative effects of pesticides on wild bee communities can be buffered by landscape context

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 2015)

Nest suitability, fine-scale population structure and male-mediated dispersal of a solitary ground nesting bee in an urban landscape

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

Nesting Behavior of Four Species of Perdita (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae)

Omnivory in Bees: Elevated Trophic Positions among All Major Bee Families

scientific article published on 25 July 2019

Origins, evolution, and diversification of cleptoparasitic lineages in long-tongued bees.

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PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF THE SOCIALLY POLYMORPHIC SWEAT BEE HALICTUS RUBICUNDUS (HYMENOPTERA: HALICTIDAE)

scientific article (publication date: 2002)

Per-visit pollinator performance and regional importance of wild Bombus and Andrena (Melandrena) compared to the managed honey bee in New York apple orchards

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Phylogenetic relationships and the evolution of host preferences in the largest clade of brood parasitic bees (Apidae: Nomadinae)

scholarly article published in 2022

Phylogenetic systematics and a revised generic classification of anthidiine bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae).

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Phylogenomic Insights into the Evolution of Stinging Wasps and the Origins of Ants and Bees

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Phylogenomic and Morphological Reevaluation of the Bee Tribes Biastini, Neolarrini, and Townsendiellini (Hymenoptera: Apidae) With Description of Three New Species of Schwarzia ⬇️

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Phylogeny and biogeography of bees of the tribe Osmiini (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae).

scientific article published on 16 July 2008

Phylogeny of Halictidae with an emphasis on endemic African Halictinae

scientific article (publication date: 2008)

Phylogeny of colletid bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) inferred from four nuclear genes.

scientific article published on 22 October 2008

Phylogeny of eusocial Lasioglossum reveals multiple losses of eusociality within a primitively eusocial clade of bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae).

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Phylogeny of halictine bees supports a shared origin of eusociality for Halictus and Lasioglossum (Apoidea: Anthophila: Halictidae).

scientific article published on 7 September 2012

Phylogeny of the Xeromelissinae (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) Based upon Morphology and Molecules

scholarly article by Eduardo A.B. Almeida et al published January 2008 in Apidologie

Phylogeny of the bee family Melittidae (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) based on combined molecular and morphological data

scholarly article by Denis Michez et al published 11 June 2009 in Systematic Entomology

Phylogeny of the bee genus Lasioglossum (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) based on mitochondrial COI sequence data

scholarly article by Bryan N. Danforth published October 1999 in Systematic Entomology

Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the mining bee family Andrenidae

scientific article published in 2021

Phylogeny, new generic-level classification, and historical biogeography of the Eucera complex (Hymenoptera: Apidae).

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Phylogeography of the socially polymorphic sweat bee Halictus rubicundus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae).

scientific article published in February 2002

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

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Pollen defenses negatively impact foraging and fitness in a generalist bee (Bombus impatiens: Apidae)

scientific article published on 20 February 2020

Pollen preferences among the bee species visiting apple (Malus pumila) in New York

article by Laura Russo & Bryan Danforth published 3 July 2017 in Apidologie

Pollination services for apple are dependent on diverse wild bee communities

article by Eleanor J Blitzer et al published April 2016 in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Pollinivory and the diversification dynamics of bees

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Rapid repeated cloning of mutant lac repressor genes

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Recent and simultaneous origins of eusociality in halictid bees

scientific article (publication date: 7 July 2006)

Recent intron gain in elongation factor-1alpha of colletid bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae).

scientific article published on 22 January 2004

Revision and reclassification of Lasioglossum (Evylaeus), L. (Hemihalictus) and L. (Sphecodogastra) in eastern North America (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae)

scientific article (publication date: 17 June 2013)

Rooting phylogenies using gene duplications: an empirical example from the bees (Apoidea).

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Secondarily solitary: the evolutionary loss of social behavior.

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Single-copy nuclear genes recover cretaceous-age divergences in bees.

scientific article published in April 2004

Social insects: are ants just wingless bees?

scientific article published in November 2013

Sources and frequency of brood loss in solitary bees

scientific article published on 20 June 2019

Spillover of chalkbrood fungi to native solitary bee species from non‐native congeners

scientific article published in 2023

Taxonomic affinity of halictid bee fossils (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) based on geometric morphometrics analyses of wing shape

scholarly article by Thibaut De Meulemeester et al published December 2012 in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

Temporally dependent pollinator competition and facilitation with mass flowering crops affects yield in co-blooming crops

scientific article published on 27 March 2017

The Nesting and Foraging Behavior of Perdita texana (Cresson) (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae)

The antiquity and evolutionary history of social behavior in bees

scientific article published in 2011

The bee tree of life: a supermatrix approach to apoid phylogeny and biogeography

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The challenge of accurately documenting bee species richness in agroecosystems: bee diversity in eastern apple orchards

scientific article published on 5 August 2015

The diversification of neopasiphaeine bees during the Cenozoic (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)

scholarly article by Eduardo A.B. Almeida et al published 18 December 2018 in Zoologica Scripta

The history of early bee diversification based on five genes plus morphology

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The impact of GC bias on phylogenetic accuracy using targeted enrichment phylogenomic data.

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The impact of molecular data on our understanding of bee phylogeny and evolution.

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The morphology and behavior of dimorphic males in Perdita portalis (Hymenoptera : Andrenidae)

scholarly article by Bryan N. Danforth published November 1991 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees

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Two New and Highly Apomorphic Species of the Lasioglossum Subgenus Evylaeus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) from Central America

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Variation in DNA Methylation Is Not Consistently Reflected by Sociality in Hymenoptera.

scientific article published on June 2017

Viral transmission in honey bees and native bees, supported by a global black queen cell virus phylogeny

scientific article published on 17 January 2019

Why do leafcutter bees cut leaves? New insights into the early evolution of bees

scientific article (publication date: 7 December 2011)

Wild insect diversity increases inter-annual stability in global crop pollinator communities

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