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Publications

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2022 (Published or coming soon)

Chole H, de Guinea M, Woodard SH, Bloch G (2022). Field-realistic concentrations of a neonicotinoid insecticide influence socially-regulated brood development in a bumble bee. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 289: 20220253. doi/org.10.1098/rspb.2022.0253 ​*This work was led by the Bloch lab.

Fisher K, Duennes MA, Woodard SH (2022). Mountains as refugia: evidence from bumble bee brain transcriptomes. bioRxiv, doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.09.507046

Costa C, Leza M, Duennes MA, Fisher K, Vollaro A, Hur M, Kirkwood JS, Woodard SH (2002). Pollen diet mediates how pesticide exposure impacts brain gene expression in nest-founding bumble bee queens. Science of the Total Environment, 883: 155216. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155216

Fisher K, Watrous KM, Williams NM, Richardson LL, Woodard SH (2022) A contemporary survey of bumble bee diversity across the state of California. Ecology & Evolution, 12: e8505. doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8505

Fisher K*, Sarro E*, Miranda CK, Guillén BM, Woodard SH (2022). Worker task organization in incipient bumble bee nests. Animal Behaviour, 185: 143-161. doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.12.005

Sarro E, Tripodi A, Woodard SH (2022). Bumble bee (B. vosnesenskii) queen nest searching occurs independent of ovary developmental status. Integrative Organismal Biology, 4: obac007. doi.org/10.1093/iob/obac007


Costa C, Okamoto N, Orr M, Yamanaka N, Woodard SH (2022). Convergent loss of PTTH, a canonical regulator of development, in social bee evolution. ​Frontiers in Physiology, 13: 831928. doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.831928

2021

Sarro E, Sun P, Mauck K, Rodriguez-Arellano D, Yamanaka N, Woodard SH (2021) An organizing feature of bumble bee life history: worker emergence promotes queen reproduction and survival in young nests. Conservation Physiology, 9: coab047. doi.org/10.1093/consphys/coab047

Watrous KM, Costa C, Diaz YR, Woodard SH (2021) Flexibility in the critical period of nutrient sequestration in bumble bee queens. ​Integrative Organismal Biology, 3: obab009. doi.org/10.1093/iob/obab009

Costa CP, Fisher K, Guillén B, Yamanaka G, Bloch G, Woodard SH (2021) Care-giver identity impacts offspring development and performance in an annually social bumble bees. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 21: 20. doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01756-2

Cohen H, Smith GP, Sardiñas H, Zorn JF, McFrederick QS, Woodard SH, Ponisio LC (2021) Mass-flowering monoculture attracts bees, amplifying parasite prevalence. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288: 20211369. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1369 *This work was led by the Ponisio lab and in collaboration with the McFrederick lab.

2020

Woodard SH*, Federman S*, James RR, Danforth BN, Griswold TL, Inouye D, McFrederick QS, Morandin L, Paul DL,  Sellers E, Strange JP, Vaughan M, Williams NM, Branstetter MG, Burns C, Cane J, Cariveau AB, Cariveau DP, Childers A, Childers C, Cox-Foster DL, Evans EC, Graham KK, Hackett K, Huntzinger KT, Irwin RE, Jha S, Lawson SP, Liang C, López-Uribe MM, Melathopoulos A, Moylett HMC, Otto C, Ponisio LC, Richardson LL, Rose R, Singh R, Wehling W (2020) Toward a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees. Biological Conservation, 252: 1-6. doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108821

Costa CP, Duennes MA, Fisher K, Der JP, Watrous KM, Okamoto N, Yamanaka N, Woodard SH (2020) Transcriptome analysis reveals nutrition- and age- related patterns of gene expression in the fat body of pre-overwintering bumble bee queens. Molecular Ecology, 29: 720-737. doi.org/10.1111/mec.15361

2019

Watrous KW, Duennes MA, Woodard SH (2019) Pollen diet composition impacts early nesting success in queen bumble bees (Bombus impatiens). Environmental Entomology, 48: 711-717. doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvz043

​Chole H, Woodard SH, Bloch G (2019) Body size variation in bees: regulation, mechanisms, and relationship to social organization. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 35: 77-87. doi.org/10.1016/j/cois/2019.07.006 *This work was led by the Bloch lab.

Woodard SH, Duennes MA, Watrous KM, Jha S (2019) Diet and nutritional status during early adult life have immediate and persistent effects on queen bumble bees. Conservation Physiology, 7: coz048. doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coz048

​Fisher KC, West M, Lomeli AM, Woodard SH, Purcell J (2019) Are societies resilient? Challenges faced by social insects in a changing world. Insectes Sociaux, 66:5-13. doi.org/.10.1007/s00040-018-0662-2 *This work was co-organized with Dr. Jessica Purcell.

2018

Leza M, Watrous KM, Bratu J, Woodard SH (2018) Effects of neonicotinoid insecticide exposure and monofloral diet on nest-founding bumblebee queens. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 285:20180761. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0761 

2017

Woodard SH (2017) Bumble bee ecophysiology: Integrating the changing environment and the organism. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 22:101-108. doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2017.06.001

Woodard SH & Jha S (2017) Wild bee nutritional ecology: predicting pollinator population dynamics, movement, and services from floral resources. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 21:83-90. doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2017.05.011

2016

Romiguier J, Cameron SA, Woodard SH, Fischman BJ, Keller L, Praz CJ (2016) Phylogenomics controlling for base compositional bias reveals a single origin of eusociality in corbiculate bees. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 33:670-678. doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msv258 *This work was led by the Praz lab.

2015

Woodard SH, Lozier J, Strange J, Williams P, Goulson D, Jha S (2015) Molecular tools and bumble bees: revealing hidden details of ecology and evolution in a model system. Molecular Ecology, 24: 2916-2936. doi.org/10.1111/mec.13198

2014

Woodard SH, Bloch G, Band MR, Robinson GE (2014) Molecular heterochrony and the evolution of cooperative brood care behavior in bumble bees (Bombus terrestris). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 281: 20132419. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2419

2013

Woodard SH, Bloch G, Band MR, Robinson GE (2013) Social regulation of maternal traits in nest-founding bumble bee (Bombus terrestris) queens. Journal of Experimental Biology, 216: 3474–3482. doi.org/10.1242/jeb.087403

2011

Woodard SH*, Fischman BJ*, Venkat A, Hudson ME, Varala K, Cameron SA, Clark AG, Robinson GE (2011) Genes involved in convergent evolution of eusociality in bees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 108: 7472-7477. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1103457108
Fischman BJ*, Woodard SH*, Robinson GE (2011) Molecular evolutionary analyses of insect society. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 108: 10847-10854. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1100301108

*Shared first authorship; both authors contributed equally.

© S. Hollis Woodard 2022
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