2020
Amiri E., Waiker P., Rueppell O., Manda P. (2020) Using manual and computer-based text-mining to uncover research trends for Apis mellifera. Veterinary Sciences, 7:61. Link
Wagoner K.M., Millar J., Schal C., Rueppell O. Cuticular pheromones stimulate hygienic behavior in the honey bee (Apis mellifera). Scientific Reports, 10: 7132. Link
Amiri E., Strand M.K., Tarpy D.R., Rueppell O. Honey bee queens and virus infections. Viruses, 12(3): 322. Link
Amiri E., Le K., Vega-Melendez C., Strand M.K., Tarpy D.R., Rueppell O. Egg-size plasticity in Apis mellifera: honey bee queens alter egg size in response to both genetic and environmental factors. Journal of Evolutionary Biology,33(4): 534-543. Link
Oppenheim S., Cao X., Rueppell O., Chantawannakul P., Krongdang S., Phokasem P., DeSalle R., Goodwin S., Xing J., Rosenfeld J. Whole Genome Sequencing and Assembly of the Asian Honey Bee Apis dorsata. Genome Biology and Evolution, 12(1): 3677-3683. Link
Wagoner K.M., Rueppell O. U.S Patent No. 10,524,455 B2: Methods and Compositions for Inducing Hygienic Behavior in Honey bees.
DeLory T., Funderburk K., Miller K., Zuluaga-Smith W., McPherson S., Pirk C.W., Costa C., Weinstein-Teixeira E., Dahle B., Rueppell O. Local variation in recombination rates of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) genome among samples from six disparate populations. Insectes Sociaux, 67(1): 127-138. Link
2019
Wagoner K.M., Rueppell O. U.S Patent No. 10,512,251 B2: Methods and Compositions for Inducing Hygienic Behavior in Honey bees.
Wagoner K.M., Spivak M., Hefetz A., Reams T., Rueppell O. Varroa mites and Deformed Wing Virus elicit hygienic behavior in honey bees through stock-specific changes in brood cuticular hydrocarbons. Scientific Reports, 9: 8753. Link
Amiri E., Seddon G., Zuluaga-Smith W., Strand M.K., Tarpy D.R., Rueppell O. Israeli Acute Bee Paralysis Virus: queen-worker interaction and potential virus transmission pathways. Insects, 10(1): 9. Link
Wu F., Ma C., Han B., Meng L., Hu H., Fang Y., Feng M., Zhang X., Rueppell O., Li J., (2019) Behavioral, physiological, and molecular changes in alloparental care givers may be responsible for selection response for female reproductive investment in honey bees. Molecular Ecology, 28: 4212-4227. Link
Waiker P., Baral S., Kennedy A., Bhatia S., Rueppell A., Le K., Amiri E., Tsuruda J., Rueppell O. Foraging and homing behavior of honey bees (Apis mellifera) during a total solar eclipse. The Science of Nature, 106:4. Link
Rueppell O., Kennedy A. Aging and Behavior in Honey Bees. In: “Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Second Edition”, J. Choe (ed.), Academic Press, ISBN13: 978-0128132517.
2018
Amiri E., Kryger P., Meixner M.D., Strand M.K., Tarpy D.R., & Rueppell O. Quantitative patterns of vertical transmission of deformed wing virus in honey bees. PLoS One, 13(3): e0195283. Link
Wagoner K.M., Spivak M., Rueppell O. Brood affects hygienic behavior in the honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Journal of Economic Entomology, 111(6): 2520-2530. Link
Lawhorn C.M., Shomaker R., Rowell J.T., & Rueppell O. Simple comparisons of differentially expressed gene lists may overestimate gene overlap. Journal of Computational Biology, 25(6). 606-612. Link
Quigley T.P., Amdam G.V., Rueppell O. Honey bee workers as models of aging. In: “Conn’s Handbook of Models for Human Aging”, J. Ram (ed.), Elsevier Press, Atlanta, p.533-547. Link
Langberg K., Phillips M., Rueppell O. Testing the effect of paraquat exposure on genomic recombination rates in queens of the Western Honey Bee, Apis mellifera. Genetica, 146(2), 171-178. Link
2017
Amiri E., Strand M.K., Rueppell O. & Tarpy D.R. Queen quality and the impact of honey bee diseases on queen health: potential for interactions between two major threats to colony health. Insects, 8(2), 48. Link
Rueppell O., Yousefi B., Collazo J. & Smith D. Early life stress affects mortality rate more than social behavior, gene expression or oxidative damage in honey bee workers. Experimental Gerontology, 90: 19-25. Link
Wagoner K.M. & Rueppell O. Effects of steel foundation wire on elemental content and hygienic removal of honey bee (Apis mellifera) brood. Journal of Apicultural Research, 56(3):270-277. Link
2016
Rueppell O., Kuster R. , Miller K. , Fouks B., Rubio Correa S., Collazo J., Phaincharoen M., Tingek S., & Koeniger N. A new metazoan recombination rate record and consistently high recombination rates in the honey bee genus Apis accompanied by frequent inversions but not translocations. Genome Biology and Evolution, 8(12): 3653-3660. Link
Simone-Finstrom M., Li-Byarlay H., Huang M.H., Strand M.K., Rueppell O., & Tarpy D.R. Migratory management and environmental conditions affect lifespan and oxidative stress in honey bees. Scientific Reports, 6: 32023. Link
Li-Byarlay H., Huang M.H., Simone-Finstrom M., Strand M.K., Tarpy D.R., & Rueppell O. Honey bee (Apis mellifera) drones survive oxidative stress due to increased tolerance instead of avoidance or repair of oxidative damage. Experimental Gerontology, 83(10): 15-21. Link
Rueppell O., Aumer D. & Moritz R.F.A. Ties between aging plasticity and reproductive physiology in honey bees (Apis mellifera) reveal a positive relation between fecundity and longevity as consequence of advanced social evolution. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 16: 64-68. Link
2015
Thompson E., Everett J., Rowell J.T., Rychtar J. & Rueppell O. The evolution of cooperation is affected by the persistence of fitness effects, the neighborhood size and their interaction. Letters in Biomathematics, 2(1): 67-78. Link
von Wyschetski K., Rueppell O., Oettler J. & Heinze J. Transcriptomic signatures mirror the lack of the fecundity / longevity trade-off in ant queens. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32(12): 3173-3185. Link
Rueppell O., Koenigseder F., Heinze J. & Schrempf A. Intrinsic survival advantage of social insect queens depends on reproductive activation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 28(12): 2349-2354. Link
Sadd B.M., Barribeau S.M., et al. (List of 142 Authors including Rueppell, O.) The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization. Genome Biology, 16:76. Link
Ross C., DeFelice D., Hunt G., Ihle K., Amdam G.V. & Rueppell O. Genomic correlates of recombination rate and its variability across eight recombination maps in the Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera L.). BMC Genomics, 16:107. Link
Ihle K.E., Rueppell O., Huang Z.Y., Wang Y., Fondrk M.K., Page R.E., Amdam G.V. Genetic architecture of a hormonal response to gene knockdown in honey bees. Journal of Heredity,106: 155-165. Link
Michaud S., Boncristiani H.F., Gouw J.W., Strand M., Pettis J., Rueppell O., Foster L.J. Response of the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) proteome to Israeli acute paralysis virus infection. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 93(9): 711-720. Link
Ross C., Rychtar J., Rueppell O. A structured population model suggests that long life and post-reproductive lifespan promote the evolution of cooperation. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 369:85-94. Link
Ross C., DeFelice D., Hunt G., Ihle K., Rueppell O. A comparison of multiple genome-wide recombination maps in Apis mellifera. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics 109: 91-98. Link
DeFelice D.S., Ross C., Simone-Finstrom M., Warrit N., Smith D.R., Burgett M., Sukumalanand P., Rueppell O. Geographic variation in polyandry of the Eastern Honey Bee, Apis cerana, in Thailand. Insectes Sociaux, 62(1): 37-42, Link
2014
Heinze J., Rueppell O. The frequency of multi-queen colonies increases with altitude in a Nearctic ant. Ecological Entomology, 39: 527–529. Link
Forkpah C., Dixon L.R., Fahrbach S.E., Rueppell O. Xenobiotic effects on intestinal stem cell proliferation in adult honey bee (Apis mellifera L) workers. PLoS ONE, 9(3): e91180. Link
Kuster R.D., Boncristiani H.F., Rueppell O. Immunogene and viral transcript dynamics during parasitic Varroa destructor (Anderson) mite infection of developing honey bee (Apis mellifera L) pupae. Journal of Experimental Biology, 217: 1710-1718. Link
Elsik C.G., Worley K.C., Bennett A.K., Beye M., Camara F.C., Childers C.P., de Graaf D.C., Debsyer G., Deng J., Devreese B., Elhaik E., Evans J.D., Foster L.J., Graur D., Guigo R., Hoff K.J., Holder M.E., Hudson M.E., Hunt G.J., Jiang H., Joshi V., Khetani R.S., Kosarev P., Kovar C.L., Ma J., Maleszka R., Moritz R.F.A., Munoz-Torres M.C., Murphy T.D., Muzny D.M., Newsham I.F., Reese J.T., Robertson H.M., Robinson G.E., Rueppell O., Solovyev V., Stanke M., Stolle E., Tsuruda J.M., Van Vaerenbergh M., Waterhouse R.M., Weaver D.B., Whitfield C.W., Wu Y., Zdobnov E.M., Zhang L., Zhu D., and Gibbs R.A. Finding the missing honey bee genes: lessons learned from a genome upgrade. BMC Genomics, 15(1):86. Link
Rueppell O. The architecture of the pollen hoarding syndrome in honey bees: Implications for understanding social evolution, behavioral syndromes, and selective breeding. Apidologie, 45: 364-374. Link
Dixon L.R., Kuster R.D., Rueppell O. Reproduction, social behavior, and aging trajectories in honey bee workers. AGE, 36: 89-101. Link
2013
Wagoner K.M., Boncristiani H.F., Rueppell O. Multifaceted responses to two major parasites in the honey bee (Apis mellifera). BMC Ecology, 13:26. Link.
Ross C. R., Rueppell O., Rychtar J. A spatially organized population model to study the evolution of cooperation in species with discrete life-history stages. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, 64: 147-154. Link.
Crowe M.L., Rychtar J., Rueppell O., Chhetri M., Remington D.L., Gupta S.N. Proving the “proof”: Interdisciplinary undergraduate research positively impacts students. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, 64: 25-29. Link
Boncristiani H.F., Evans J.D., Chen Y., Pettis J., Murphy C., Lopez D.L., Simone-Finstroem M., Strand M., Tarpy D.R., Rueppell O. In-vitro infection of pupae with Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus suggests variation for susceptibility and disturbance of transcriptional homeostasis in honey bees (Apis mellifera). PLoS ONE, 8(9): e73429. Link
2012
Rueppell O., Meier S., Deutsch R. Multiple mating but not recombination causes quantitative increase in offspring genetic diversity for varying genetic architectures. PLoS ONE, 7(10): e47220. Link
Page R.E., Fondrk M.K., Rueppell O. Complex pleiotropy characterizes the pollen hoarding syndrome in honey bees (Apis mellifera L.). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 66: 1459-1466. Link
Page R.E., Rueppell O., Amdam G.V. Genetics of reproduction and regulation of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) social behavior. Annual Review of Genetics, 46: 97-119. Link
Dixon L.R., McQuage M.R., Lonon E.J., Buehler D., Seck O., Rueppell O. Pleiotropy of segregating genetic variants that affect honey bee worker life expectancy. Experimental Gerontology, 47: 631-637. Link
Munday M., Rinderer T.E., Rueppell O. Worker ovary size and activation of Russian honey bees (Apis mellifera L.). Journal of Apicultural Research, 51: 147-149. Link
Shorter J.R., Rueppell O. (2012) A review on self-destructive defense behaviors in social insects. Insectes Sociaux, 59: 1-10. Link
2011
Rueppell O., Hayes A.M., Warrit N., Smith D.R. Population structure of Apis cerana in Thailand reflects biogeography and current gene flow rather than Varroa mite association. Insectes Sociaux, 58: 445-452. Link
Rueppell O., Phaincharoen M., Kuster R.D., Tingek S. Cross-species correlation between queen mating numbers and worker ovary sizes suggests kin conflict may influence ovary size evolution in honeybees. Naturwissenschaften, 98: 795-799. Link
Graham, A.M., Munday, M.D., Kaftanoglu, O., Page R.E., Amdam G.V., Rueppell, O. Support for the reproductive ground plan hypothesis of social evolution and major QTL for ovary traits of Africanized worker honey bees (Apis mellifera L.). BMC Evolutionary Biology,11: 95. Link
Abbot, P., Abe, J., Alcock, J., et al. (Alphabetical List of 136 Authors including Rueppell, O.) Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality. Nature, 471: E1-E4. Link
Wilhelm M.E., Chhetri M., Rychtar J., Rueppell O. A game theoretical analysis of the mating sign behavior in the honey bee. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 73: 626-638. Link
Rueppell O., Metheny J.D., Linksvayer T.A., Fondrk M.K., Page R.E., Amdam G.V. Genetic architecture of ovary size and asymmetry in European honeybee workers. Heredity, 106: 894-903. Link
Willard L.E., Hayes A.M., Wallrichs M.A., Rueppell O. Food manipulation in honey bees induces physiological responses at the individual and colony level. Apidologie, 42:508-518. Link
Martinson, V., Danforth, B. N., Minckley, R., Rueppell, O., Tingek, S., Moran, N. A simple and distinctive microbiota exclusively associated with honey bees and bumble bees. Molecular Ecology, 20: 619-628. Link
2010
Rueppell O., Hayworth M.K., Ross N.P. (2010) Altruistic self-removal of health-compromised honey bee workers from their hive. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23: 1538-1546. Link
Meznar E.R., Gadau J., Koeniger N., Rueppell O. Comparative linkage mapping suggests a high recombination rate in all honey bees. Journal of Heredity, 101: S118-S126. Link
Kalcounis-Rueppell M.C., Petric R., Briggs J. R., Carney C., Marshall M.M., Willse J.T., Rueppell O., Ribble D.O., Crossland J.P. Differences in ultrasonic vocalizations between wild and laboratory California mice (Peromyscus californicus). PLoS ONE, 5 (4): e9705. Link
2009
Linksvayer T.A., Rueppell O., Siegel A., Kaftanoglu O., Page R.E., Amdam G.V.A. The genetic basis of transgressive ovary size in honey bee workers. Genetics, 183: 693-707. Link
Gove R.P., Hayworth M. K., Chhetri M., Rueppell O. Division of labour and social insect colony performance in relation to task and mating number under two alternative response threshold models. Insectes Sociaux, 56: 319-331. Link
Rueppell O., Kaftanoglu O., Page R.E. Honey bee (Apis mellifera) workers live longer in small than in large colonies. Experimental Gerontology, 44: 447-452. Link
Hayworth M. K., Johnson N.G., Wilhelm M.E., Gove R.P., Metheny J.D., Rueppell O. Added weights lead to reduced flight behavior and mating success in polyandrous honey bee queens (Apis mellifera). Ethology, 115: 698-706. Link
Rueppell O. Characterization of quantitative trait loci for the age of first foraging in honey bee workers. Behavior Genetics, 39: 541-553. Link
Amdam G.V., Rueppell O., Fondrk M.K., Page R.E., Nelson C.M. The nurse’s load: early-life exposure to brood-rearing affects behavior and lifespan in honey bees (Apis mellifera). Experimental Gerontology, 44: 467-471. Link
Viljakainen L., Evans J.D., Hasselmann M., Rueppell O., Tingek S., Pamilo P. Rapid evolution of immune proteins in social insects. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 26: 1791-1801. Link
Wang Y., Amdam G.V., Rueppell O., Wallrichs M.A., Fondrk M.K., Kaftanoglu O., Page R.E. PDK1 and HR46 gene homologs tie social behavior to ovary signals. PLoS ONE, 4(4): e4899. Link
Chhetri M., Johnson N., Rueppell O., Rychtar J. Revisiting the variance-based selection model of diploid drone production for multiple mating in honey bees. Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics, 12(2): 141-160. Link
2008
Rueppell O., Hunggims E., Tingek S. Association between larger ovaries and pollen foraging in queenless Apis cerana workers supports the reproductive ground – plan hypothesis of social evolution. Journal of Insect Behavior, 21: 317-321. Link
Ward K.N., Coleman J., Clittin K., Fahrbach S., Rueppell O. Age, caste, and behavior determine the replicative activity of intestinal stem cells in honeybees (Apis mellifera L.). Experimental Gerontology, 43: 530-537. Link
Rueppell O., Linford R., Gardner P., Coleman J., Fine K. Aging and demographic plasticity in response to experimental age structures in honeybees (Apis mellifera L). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 62: 1621-1631. Link
Rueppell O., Johnson N., Rychtar J. Variance-based selection may explain general mating patterns in social insects. Biology Letters, 4: 270-273. Link
2007
Rueppell O., Bachelier C., Fondrk M.K., Page R.E. Regulation of life history determines lifespan of worker honey bees (Apis mellifera L). Experimental Gerontology, 42: 1020-1032. Link
Rueppell O., Christine S., Mulcrone C., Groves L. Aging without functional senescence in honey bee workers. Current Biology, 17: R274-R275. Link
Hunt G., Amdam G.V., Schlipalius D., Emory C., Sardesai N., Williams C., Rueppell O., Guzmán-Novoa E., Arechavaleta-Velasco M., Chandra S., Fondrk K.M., Beye M., Page R.E. Behavioral genomics of honeybee foraging and nest defense. The potential of the honey bee for positional cloning: High recombination rates lead to targeted genome scans for foraging and defensive-behavior genes. Naturwissenschaften, 94: 247-267. Link
2006
Beye M., Gattermeier I., Hasselmann M., Gempe T., Schioett M., Baines J., Schlipalius D., Mougel F., Emore C., Rueppell O., Sirviö A., Guzmán-Novoa E., Hunt G., Solignac M., Page R.E. Exceptionally high levels of recombination across the honey bee genome. Genome Research, 16: 1339-1344. Link
Rueppell O., Chandra S., Pankiw T., Fondrk M.K., Beye M., Hunt G., Page R.E. The genetic architecture of sucrose responsiveness in the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.). Genetics, 172: 243-251. Link
Sirviö A., Gadau J., Rueppell O., Lamatsch D., Boomsma J.J., Pamilo P., Page R.E. High recombination frequency creates genotypic diversity in colonies of the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex echinatior. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 15: 1475-1485. Link
Rueppell O., Page R.E., Fondrk M.K. Male maturation response to selection of the pollen-hoarding syndrome in honey bees (Apis mellifera L.). Animal Behaviour, 71: 227-234. Link
2005
Rüppell O., Kirkman R. Extraordinary starvation resistance in Temnothorax rugatulus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) colonies: Demography and adaptive behavior. Insectes Sociaux, 52: 282-290. Link
Rueppell O., Fondrk M.K., Page R.E. Biodemographic analysis of male honey bee mortality. Aging Cell, 4: 13-19. Link
2004
Rüppell O., Pankiw T., Page R.E. Pleiotropy, epistasis and new QTL: the genetic architecture of honey bee foraging behavior. Journal of Heredity, 95: 481-491. Link
Rueppell O., Pankiw T., Nielsen D.I., Fondrk M.K., Beye M., Page R.E. The genetic architecture of the behavioral ontogeny of foraging in honey bee workers. Genetics, 167: 1767-1779. Link
