Convergent and complementary selection shaped gains and losses of eusociality in sweat bees
- Beryl M Jones, Benjamin E R Rubin, Olga Dudchenko, …, Brendan G Hunt, Erez Lieberman Aiden, Sarah D Kocher
- Nat Ecol Evol, 10.1038/s41559-023-02001-3
Isolation disrupts social interactions and destabilizes brain development in bumblebees
- Z Yan Wang, Grace C McKenzie-Smith, Weijie Liu, …, Zahra Dhanerawala, Joshua W Shaevitz, Sarah D Kocher
- Curr Biol, 10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.066
Rate variation in the evolution of non-coding DNA associated with social evolution in bees
- Benjamin E R Rubin, Beryl M Jones, Brendan G Hunt, Sarah D Kocher
- Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 10.1098/rstb.2018.0247
A toolkit for caste differentiation
- Sarah D Kocher
- Nat Ecol Evol, 10.1038/s41559-018-0705-1
The genetic basis of a social polymorphism in halictid bees
- Sarah D Kocher, Ricardo Mallarino, Benjamin E R Rubin, Douglas W Yu, Hopi E Hoekstra, Naomi E Pierce
- Nat Commun, 10.1038/s41467-018-06824-8
Investigating the viral ecology of global bee communities with high-throughput metagenomics
- David A Galbraith, Zachary L Fuller, Allyson M Ray, …, Scott Stanley, Anthony D Vaudo, Christina M Grozinger
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Spatial fidelity of workers predicts collective response to disturbance in a social insect
- James D Crall, Nick Gravish, Andrew M Mountcastle, …, Robert L Oppenheimer, Naomi E Pierce, Stacey A Combes
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Variation in DNA Methylation Is Not Consistently Reflected by Sociality in Hymenoptera
- Karl M Glastad, Samuel V Arsenault, Kim L Vertacnik, …, Catherine R Linnen, Sarah D Kocher, Brendan G Hunt
- Genome Biol Evol, 10.1093/gbe/evx128
Solitary bees reduce investment in communication compared with their social relatives
- Bernadette Wittwer, Abraham Hefetz, Tovit Simon, …, Mark A Elgar, Naomi E Pierce, Sarah D Kocher
- Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 10.1073/pnas.1620780114
The Bee Microbiome: Impact on Bee Health and Model for Evolution and Ecology of Host-Microbe Interactions
- Philipp Engel, Waldan K Kwong, Quinn McFrederick, …, Ryan S Schwarz, Dennis vanEngelsdorp, Benjamin Dainat
- mBio, 10.1128/mbio.02164-15