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2019

Starkey J, Derstine N, Amsalem E. (2019) Do bumblebees produce brood pheromone? (Accepted, J Chem Ecol)

Starkey J, Brown A, Amsalem E. (2019) The road to sociality: Brood regulation of worker reproduction in the simple eusocial bee Bombus impatiens. Animal Behaviour 154, 57-65

Orlova M & Amsalem E. (2019) Context matters: plasticity in response to pheromones regulating reproduction and collective behavior in social Hymenoptera. Current Opinions in Insect Science 35:69-76.

Treanore E, Kiner JM, Kerner ME, Amsalem E. Diapause plays a critical role in the evolutionary divergence of female castes in bumblebees (Submitted)

2018
Cohanim AB, Amsalem E, Saad R, Shoemaker D, Privman E. Evolution of olfactory functions on the fire ant social chromosome. Genome biology and evolution 10 (11), 2947-2960

Amsalem E, Hefetz A. (2018) Preface: Pheromone-mediation of female reproduction and reproductive dominance in social species. Journal of Chemical Ecology (in press)

Amsalem E, Grozinger CM. (2018) The importance of holistically evaluating data: a comment on Holman 2018. Behavioral Ecology (in press)

2017
Amsalem E, Padilla M, Schreiber P, Altman N, Hefetz A, Grozinger CM. (2017) Do bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) queens signal their reproductive and mating status to their workers? Journal of Chemical Ecology 43 (6): 563-572 PDF

Amsalem E, Grozinger CM. (2017) Evaluating the molecular, physiological and behavioral impacts of CO2 narcosis in bumble bees (Bombus impatiens) Journal of Insect Physiology 101:57-65

2016
Padilla M, Amsalem E, Altman N, Hefetz A, Grozinger CM (2016) Chemical communication is not sufficient to explain reproductive inhibition in the bumblebee Bombus impatiens. Royal Society Open Science, in press PDF

2015
Amsalem E, Galbraith D, Cnaani J, Teal P, Grozinger CM. (2015) Conservation and modification of genetic and physiological toolkits underpinning diapause in bumble bee queens. Molecular Ecology, 24(22):5596-5616 PDF

Amsalem E, Orlova M, Grozinger CM (2015). A conserved class of queen pheromones?  Reevaluating the evidence in bumble bees (Bombus impatiens). The Proceedings of the Royal Society London B, Vol 282(1817) PDF

Amsalem E, Grozinger CM, Padilla M, Hefetz A (2015) The physiological and genomic bases of bumble bee social behavior. In Amro Zayed, Clement Kent, editors: Genomics, Physiology and Behavior of Social Insects, Vol 48, AIIP, UK: Academic Press, 2015, pp. 37-93 PDF

2014
Amsalem E, Kiefer J, Schultz S, Hefetz, A (2014) The effect of caste and reproductive state on the chemistry of the cephalic labial glands secretion of Bombus terrestris. Journal of Chemical Ecology 48(8): 900-912 PDF

Amsalem E, Teal P, Grozinger CM, Hefetz A (2014) Precocene-I inhibits juvenile hormone biosynthesis, ovarian activation, aggression and alters sterility signal production in bumble bee (Bombus terrestris) workers. Journal of Experimental Biology. 217 (17): 3178-3185

Shpigler, H, Amsalem E, Huang ZY, Cohen M, Siegel AJ, Hefetz A, Bloch G (2014) Gonadotropic and physiological functions of juvenile hormone in bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) workers. PLoS ONE 9(6): e100650. PDF

Amsalem E, Malka O, Grozinger C, Hefetz A (2014) Exploring the role of juvenile hormone and vitellogenin in reproduction and social behavior in bumble bees. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14:45

2013 and earlier

Amsalem E, Shpigler H, Bloch G, Hefetz A (2013) Dufour’s gland secretion, sterility and foraging behavior: Correlated behavior traits in bumblebee workers. Journal of Insect Physiology 59(12), 1250-1255.

Amsalem, E, Shamia, D and Hefetz, A (2013) Aggression or ovarian development as determinants of reproductive dominance in B. terrestris: interpretation using a simulation model. Insectes Sociaux 60 (2), 213-222

Amsalem, E. and Hefetz, A (2011) The effect of group size on the interplay between dominance and reproduction in B. terrestris. PLoS One 6(3): e18238.

Amsalem, E. and Hefetz, A (2010) The appeasement effect of sterility signaling in dominance contests among B. terrestris workers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 64 (10): 1685-1694

​Amsalem, E., Twele, R., Francke, W. And Hefetz, A (2009) Reproductive competition in the bumblebee B. terrestris: Do workers advertise sterility? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 276 (1660): 1295-1304

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