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A SNP test to identify Africanized honeybees via proportion of 'African' ancestry.

scientific article

A Single Gene Causes Thelytokous Parthenogenesis, the Defining Feature of the Cape Honeybee Apis mellifera capensis

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

A parent-of-origin effect on honeybee worker ovary size

scientific article

A quantitative study of worker reproduction in queenright colonies of the Cape honey bee, Apis mellifera capensis

scientific article published on 13 May 2009

A scientific note on a genetically-determined color morph of the dwarf honey bee,Apis andreniformis

scientific article (publication date: 13 May 2009)

A scientific note on a rapid method for the molecular discrimination of<i>Apis andreniformis</i>and<i>A. florea</i>

scientific article published in 2009

A scientific note on a simple method for karyotyping honey bee (<i>Apis mellifera</i>) eggs

scientific article published in 2009

A scientific note on the drone flight time of<i>Apis mellifera capensis</i>and<i>A. m. scutellata</i>

scientific article published in 2007

A scientific note on the mating frequency of Apis dorsata

A thelytokous lineage of socially parasitic honey bees has retained heterozygosity despite at least 10 years of inbreeding

scientific article

Abundant small RNAs in the reproductive tissues and eggs of the honey bee, Apis mellifera

scientific article published on 04 April 2022

Actual reproductive conflict during emergency queen rearing in Apis florea

scientific article published in 2011

Aggregations of unrelated<i>Apis florea</i>colonies

scientific article published in 2008

An abbreviated SNP panel for ancestry assignment of honeybees (Apis mellifera)

scientific article published in 2017

An invasive social insect overcomes genetic load at the sex locus

scientific article published on 07 November 2016

An ‘I see you’ prey–predator signal between the Asian honeybee, Apis cerana, and the hornet, Vespa velutina

article

Anarchy Is a Molecular Signature of Worker Sterility in the Honey Bee.

scientific article published on 28 September 2015

Anarchy in the beehive

scientific article published in Nature

Ancestral monogamy shows kin selection is key to the evolution of eusociality

scientific article

Androgenesis: where males hijack eggs to clone themselves ⬇️

scientific article published on October 2016

Apis florea and Apis cerana workers do not discriminate between queen-laid and worker-laid Apis mellifera eggs

scientific article published in 2019

Asexually produced Cape honeybee queens (Apis mellifera capensis) reproduce sexually

scientific article published on 20 July 2011

Assessing the density of honey bee colonies at ecosystem scales

scientific article published in 2018

Associations between reproduction and work in workers of the Asian hive bee Apis cerana

scientific article published on 12 August 2015

Behavioural tactics used by invasive cane toads (<i>Rhinella marina</i>) to exploit apiaries in Australia

scientific article published in 2018

Biogenic amine receptor gene expression in the ovarian tissue of the honey bee Apis mellifera.

scientific article published on 12 September 2011

Brood comb construction by the stingless bees Tetragonula hockingsi and Tetragonula carbonaria

scientific article published on 25 April 2012

Characterization of microsatellite loci for Trigona carbonaria, a stingless bee endemic to Australia

article

Cheaters sometimes prosper: targeted worker reproduction in honeybee (Apis mellifera) colonies during swarming

scientific article published on 29 July 2013

Cheating honeybee workers produce royal offspring.

scientific article published in February 2008

Conflict and major transitions - why we need true queens

scientific article published on 03 April 2019

Conservation of Asian honey bees

scientific article published in 2009

Conserved numts mask a highly divergent mitochondrial-COI gene in a species complex of Australian stingless bees Tetragonula (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

scientific article published on 17 September 2019

Controlling feral honey bee,Apis melliferaL. (Hymenoptera: Apidae), populations in Australia: Methodologies and costs

scientific article published in June 1998

Corrigendum: Molecular basis of sex determination in haplodiploids

scholarly article published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Cytogenetic basis of thelytoky in Apis mellifera capensis

DNA methylation is not a driver of gene expression reprogramming in young honey bee workers

scientific article published on 29 July 2021

Dance precision of Apis florea—clues to the evolution of the honeybee dance language?

scientific article published in 2008

Differences in foraging and broodnest temperature in the honey bees Apis cerana and A. mellifera

scientific article published in 2012

Different bees, different needs: how nest-site requirements have shaped the decision-making processes in homeless honeybees (Apis spp.).

scientific article published in May 2018

Domestication of honey bees was associated with expansion of genetic diversity ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

Drifting of workers in nest aggregations of the giant honeybee Apis dorsata

scientific article (publication date: November 2002)

Effects of carbon dioxide narcosis on ovary activation and gene expression in worker honeybees, Apis mellifera.

scientific article

Effects of cross-feeding anarchistic and wild type honey bees: anarchistic workers are not queen-like ⬇️

scientific article published on February 14, 2003

Effects of natural mating and CO2 narcosis on biogenic amine receptor gene expression in the ovaries and brain of queen honey bees, Apis mellifera.

scientific article published on 18 September 2012

Effects of selection for honey bee worker reproduction on foraging traits.

scientific article

Egg-marking pheromones in honey-bees Apis mellifera

article by Benjamin P Oldroyd et al published 23 March 2002 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Emergency queens inTetragonula carbonaria(Smith, 1854) (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

scholarly article by Túlio M Nunes et al published 24 June 2014 in Austral Entomology

Entomology: A Bee Farming a Fungus

scientific article published on November 2015

Entomology: Asian honeybees parasitize the future dead.

scientific article published on October 2005

Estimating the density of honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies using trapped drones: area sampled and drone mating flight distance

scientific article published in 2019

Evaluating alternative hypotheses for the origin of eusociality in corbiculate bees

scientific article published on 01 November 2004

Evidence for intra-colonial genetic variance in resistance to American foulbrood of honey bees ( Apis mellifera): further support for the parasite/pathogen hypothesis for the evolution of polyandry

scientific article published on 07 May 2003

Evolution of Mating Behavior in the Genus Apis and an Estimate of Mating Frequency in Apis cerana (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

scientific article published on 13 January 2015

Evolution of bee dances

scientific article published in Nature

Evolution of multiple mating in the genus <i>Apis</i>

scientific article published in 2000

Evolution of queen cuticular hydrocarbons and worker reproduction in stingless bees

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

Evolution: a royal seal for wasp eggs

scientific article published on June 2015

Experimental manipulation of ovary activation and gene expression in honey bee (Apis mellifera) queens and workers: testing hypotheses of reproductive regulation.

scientific article published in October 2007

Expression of genes related to reproduction and pollen foraging in honey bees (Apis mellifera) narcotized with carbon dioxide.

scientific article published on 31 March 2010

Extreme polyandry aids the establishment of invasive populations of a social insect. ⬇️

scientific article published on 23 August 2017

Factors affecting the dynamics of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) hybrid zone of South Africa.

scientific article published on 12 September 2007

Four quantitative trait loci that influence worker sterility in the honeybee (Apis mellifera).

scientific article published on 18 June 2008

Genetic Characterization of Exotic Commercial Honey Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Populations in Thailand Reveals High Genetic Diversity and Low Population Substructure

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Genetic Diversity in the Progeny of Commercial Australian Queen Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Produced in Autumn and Early Spring

article

Genetic Structure of an Apis dorsata Population: The Significance of Migration and Colony Aggregation

scientific article (publication date: March 2004)

Genetic architecture of the<i>Tetragonula carbonaria</i>species complex of Australian stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

scientific article published on 05 June 2014

Genetic characterization of the bees of Kangaroo Island, South Australia

scientific article published on 29 June 2016

Genetic diversity promotes homeostasis in insect colonies

scientific article

Genetic evaluation of a novel system for controlled mating of the honeybee, Apis mellifera.

scientific article published on 27 November 2009

Genetic origins of honey bees (Apis mellifera) on Kangaroo Island and Norfolk Island (Australia) and the Kingdom of Tonga

scientific article published in 2019

Genetic reincarnation of workers as queens in the Eastern honeybee Apis cerana

scientific article published on 23 July 2014

Genetic structure of island and mainland populations of a Neotropical bumble bee species

scientific article published on 07 May 2016

Genetic structure of nest aggregations and drone congregations of the southeast Asian stingless bee Trigona collina.

scientific article published in August 2004

Global allele polymorphism indicates a high rate of allele genesis at a locus under balancing selection

scientific article published on 27 August 2020

Higher removal rate of eggs laid by anarchistic queens—a cost of anarchy?

scientific article published in 2007

Honey bee (<i>Apis mellifera</i>) sperm competition in vitro – two are no less viable than one

scientific article published in 2009

Honey bee nest thermoregulation: diversity promotes stability.

scientific article published on 24 June 2004

Honeybee workers use cues other than egg viability for policing

scientific article

Hybrid origins of Australian honeybees (Apis mellifera)

scientific article published in 2015

Hybridization and asymmetric introgression between Tetragonisca angustula and Tetragonisca fiebrigi

scientific article published in 2013

Increase in dance imprecision with decreasing foraging distance in the honey bee Apis mellifera L. is partly explained by physical constraints

scientific article published on 28 July 2005

Individual honey bee (Apis cerana) foragers adjust their fuel load to match variability in forage reward

scientific article

Inheritance of thelytoky in the honey bee Apis mellifera capensis.

scientific article published on 14 January 2015

Inheritance of traits associated with reproductive potential in Apis mellifera capensis and Apis mellifera scutellata workers

scientific article published on 13 May 2008

Intergenerational reproductive parasitism in a stingless bee.

scientific article published in October 2009

Intergenerational transfer of DNA methylation marks in the honey bee

scientific article published on 30 November 2020

Kin conflict in insect societies: a new epigenetic perspective.

scientific article published on 5 April 2012

Lack of interspecific parasitism between the dwarf honeybees Apis andreniformis and Apis florea

scientific article published in 2010

Large fitness benefits from polyandry in the honey bee, Apis mellifera.

scientific article published on 22 January 2008

Levels of Polyandry and Intracolonial Genetic Relationships in Apis dorsata (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

scientific article published on 13 January 2015

Maintenance and loss of heterozygosity in a thelytokous lineage of honey bees (Apis mellifera capensis).

scientific article published on 2 February 2012

Malate Dehydrogenase allele frequencies in the commercial honey bee (Apis mellifera) population in Thailand reflect those in source populations

scientific article published on 29 December 2021

Males Are Capable of Long-Distance Dispersal in a Social Bee

scientific article published on 14 March 2022

Maternity of emergency queens in the Cape honey bee, Apis mellifera capensis.

scientific article published on 10 June 2010

Measuring the cost of worker reproduction in honeybees: work tempo in an "anarchic" line

article published in 2004

Microsatellite loci for laticaudine sea kraits

scientific article published on 18 July 2008

Mitochondrial sequencing and geometric morphometrics suggest two clades in the Tetragonilla collina (Apidae: Meliponini) population of Thailand

scientific article published on 02 June 2017

Mitochondrial sequencing reveals five separate origins of 'black' Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in eastern Australian commercial colonies.

scientific article published in April 2009

Molecular basis of sex determination in haplodiploids

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

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

article

Moving home: nest-site selection in the Red Dwarf honeybee (Apis florea)

scientific article published in 2010

Multiple paternity or multiple queens: two routes to greater intracolonial genetic diversity in the eusocial Hymenoptera.

scientific article published on 14 April 2008

Nature versus nurture in social insect caste differentiation.

scientific article published on 26 January 2010

Nepotism in the honey bee

journal article; published in Nature

Nest Thermoregulation in Social Insects

article by Julia C. Jones & Benjamin P Oldroyd published 2006 in Advances in Insect Physiology

Nest architecture and genetic differentiation in a species complex of Australian stingless bees.

scientific article

No evidence that habitat disturbance affects mating frequency in the giant honey bee Apis dorsata

scientific article published in 2012

Only full-sibling families evolved eusociality

scientific article published in Nature

Oviposition behaviour of two Australian stingless bees, Austroplebeia symei Rayment and Austroplebeia australis Friese (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

scientific article published on 27 August 1999

Parent-of-origin effects on genome-wide DNA methylation in the Cape honey bee (Apis mellifera capensis) may be confounded by allele-specific methylation.

scientific article

Paternal effects on Apis mellifera capensis worker ovary size

Paternally-biased gene expression follows kin-selected predictions in female honey bee embryos

scientific article published on 27 March 2020

Paternity frequency and maternity of males in some stingless bee species

article

Patterns of Apis mellifera infestation by Nosema ceranae support the parasite hypothesis for the evolution of extreme polyandry in eusocial insects

scientific article published in 2012

Phantom alternatives influence food preferences in the eastern honeybee Apis cerana

scientific article published on 20 October 2014

Pheromones affecting ovary activation and ovariole loss in the Asian honey bee Apis cerana

scientific article published on 20 January 2015

Population genetics of commercial and feral honey bees in Western Australia

scientific article published in April 2008

Population structuring of the ubiquitous stingless bee Tetragonisca angustula in southern Brazil as revealed by microsatellite and mitochondrial markers.

scientific article published on 23 June 2016

Queen pheromone modulates the expression of epigenetic modifier genes in the brain of honeybee workers

scientific article published on 09 December 2020

Queen pheromone regulates programmed cell death in the honey bee worker ovary.

scientific article

Queen pheromone: contraceptive or a queen presence signal?—A comment on Holman

article by Benjamin P Oldroyd published 28 April 2018 in Behavioral Ecology

Queen signals in a stingless bee: suppression of worker ovary activation and spatial distribution of active compounds

scientific article

RNA-sequencing elucidates the regulation of behavioural transitions associated with the mating process in honey bee queens

scientific article published on 31 July 2015

Racial mixing in South African honeybees: the effects of genotype mixing on reproductive traits of workers

scientific article published in 2012

Regulation of oogenesis in honey bee workers via programed cell death

scientific article

Remarkable uniformity in the densities of feral honey bee Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758 (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colonies in South Eastern Australia

article

Reply to Soley: DNA methylation marks are stably transferred across generations in honey bees

scientific article published on 06 July 2021

Reproductive interference between honeybee species in artificial sympatry.

scientific article published on 24 February 2014

Reproductive plasticity and oogenesis in the queen honey bee (Apis mellifera)

scientific article published on 10 December 2021

Selection on overdominant genes maintains heterozygosity along multiple chromosomes in a clonal lineage of honey bee.

scientific article published on 2 September 2013

Serial Founder Effects Reduce Fitness at Range Edges and Slow Expansion Rate in an Invasive Bee

scientific article published in 2022

Seven suggestive quantitative trait loci influence hygienic behavior of honey bees.

scientific article published on 26 October 2002

Sex mosaics in the honeybee: how haplodiploidy makes possible the evolution of novel forms of reproduction in social Hymenoptera

scientific article published on 28 November 2018

Similar policing rates of eggs laid by virgin and mated honey-bee queens

scientific article published on 21 October 2004

Six quantitative trait loci influence task thresholds for hygienic behaviour in honeybees (Apis mellifera).

scientific article published on 8 March 2010

Social Parasitism in the Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Is Not Controlled by a Single SNP

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Social evolution: policing without genetic conflict

scientific article published in March 2013

Social insects: rearing temperature affects ant thermoregulatory behaviour

scientific article published in December 2009

Social parasitism by workers in queenless and queenright Apis cerana colonies.

scientific article published in March 2007

Social regulation of ovary activation in ?anarchistic' honey-bees ( Apis mellifera )

scientific article published in 2001

Sperm utilization in honeybees (Apis mellifera scutellata and A. m. capensis) in South Africa

Split or combine? Effects of repeated sampling and data pooling on the estimation of colony numbers obtained from drone genotyping

scientific article published in 2021

Strikingly high levels of heterozygosity despite 20 years of inbreeding in a clonal honey bee

scientific article published on 07 December 2018

Subfamily recognition and task specialisation in honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) (Hymenoptera : Apidae)

scientific article published on 08 November 2004

Subfamily-dependent alternative reproductive strategies in worker honeybees.

scientific article

THE EVOLUTION OF WORKER STERILITY IN HONEY BEES: AN INVESTIGATION INTO A BEHAVIORAL MUTANT CAUSING FAILURE OF WORKER POLICING

scientific article published on 01 October 1998

THE GENETIC BASIS OF DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY IN APIS MELLIFERA: HETEROZYGOSITY VERSUS GENIC BALANCE.

scientific article published in June 1992

Task specialization in a wild bee, Apis florea (Hymenoptera: Apidae), revealed by RFLP banding

scientific article (publication date: 1994)

The 'I see you' prey-predator signal of Apis cerana is innate

scientific article published on 30 January 2013

The Africanization of honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) of the Yucatan: a study of a massive hybridization event across time

scientific article published on July 2002

The Cape honeybee: an example of a social cancer

scholarly article

The Genetic Architecture of Honeybee Breeding

article by Peter R. Oxley & Benjamin P Oldroyd published 2010 in Advances in Insect Physiology

The density of feral honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in South East Australia is greater in undisturbed than in disturbed habitats

scientific article published in 2015

The distribution of thelytoky, arrhenotoky and androgenesis among castes in the eusocial Hymenoptera

scholarly article by Frances Goudie & Benjamin P Oldroyd published 21 December 2017 in Insectes Sociaux

The dynamic DNA methylation cycle from egg to sperm in the honey bee Apis mellifera.

scientific article

The dynamic association between ovariole loss and sterility in adult honeybee workers

scientific article

The ecological impact of commercial beehives on invasive cane toads (Rhinella marina) in eastern Australia

article

The effects of rearing temperature on developmental stability and learning and memory in the honey bee, Apis mellifera

scientific article published on 28 July 2005

The frequency of thelytokous parthenogenesis in European-derived Apis mellifera virgin queens

scientific article published in 2019

The reliability of honey bee density estimates from trapped drones

scientific article published in 2022

The reproductive dilemmas of queenless red dwarf honeybee (Apis florea) workers

scientific article published in 2006

The role of genetic diversity in nest cooling in a wild honey bee, Apis florea.

scientific article published on 30 September 2006

The use of drone congregation behaviour for population surveys of the honey bee Apis cerana

scientific article published in 2024

Thelytokous parthenogenesis in unmated queen honeybees (Apis mellifera capensis): central fusion and high recombination rates.

scientific article published on 20 August 2008

Thelytoky in the honey bee

scientific article published in 2014

Thermal adaptation in the honeybee (Apis mellifera) via changes to the structure of malate dehydrogenase

scientific article published on 17 July 2020

Towards a molecular definition of worker sterility: differential gene expression and reproductive plasticity in honey bees.

scientific article published on October 2006

Unique DNA Methylation Profiles Are Associated with cis-Variation in Honey Bees

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Using trapped drones to assess the density of honey bee colonies: a simulation and empirical study to evaluate the accuracy of the method

scientific article published on 25 September 2020

Variable virulence among isolates of Ascosphaera apis: testing the parasite-pathogen hypothesis for the evolution of polyandry in social insects

scientific article published on 23 January 2013

Viable Triploid Honey Bees () Are Reliably Produced in the Progeny of CO Narcotised Queens

scientific article published on 03 October 2018

What mechanistic factors affect thelytokous parthenogenesis in Apis mellifera caponises queens?

scientific article published in 2020

What's killing American honey bees?

scientific article published in June 2007

When workers disunite: intraspecific parasitism by eusocial bees.

scientific article published on January 2008

Who is the Queen's mother? Royal cheats in social insects.

scientific article published in June 2008

Whole-genome DNA methylation profile of the jewel wasp (Nasonia vitripennis).

scientific article published on 20 March 2014

Why acquiesce? Worker reproductive parasitism in the Eastern honeybee (Apis cerana).

scientific article

Worker policing and worker reproduction in Apis cerana

scientific article published in 2001

Worker policing in the bee Apis florea

scientific article published in 2001

Worker reproduction in honey-bees ( Apis ) and the anarchic syndrome: a review

article

Worker reproduction in mixed-species colonies of honey bees

article

Workers' sons rescue genetic diversity at the sex locus in an invasive honey bee population

scientific article published on 13 April 2019

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